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Title: Minimal and Conceptual Art Documents
Date (inclusive): 1969-1989
Number: 920025
Physical Description:
1.5 linear feet
(3 boxes)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California, 90049-1688
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: An assembled collection of visual and written documentation, including correspondence and artists' statements, and photographs
and drawings relating to gallery installations, sculptural pieces, conceptual pieces, land art, and performances. Includes
artists' letters to German critic and editor Werner Lippert and Galleria Toselli in Milan, and materials pertaining to the
exhibition Prospect 69 (Dusseldorf, 1969). Includes letters from artists and gallery owners to Konrad Fischer, and some Fluxus
printed ephemera.
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Minimal and Conceptual Art Documents,1969-1989, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 920025.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa920025
Acquired by the repository in 1992.
Scope and Content of Collection
Visual and written documentation of Minimal and Conceptual art, including miscellaneous correspondence and artists' statements,
photographs and drawings relating to gallery installations, sculptural pieces, conceptual pieces, land art and performances.
Highlights are: artists' correspondence to German critic and editor Werner Lippert and Milanese gallery owner Franco Toselli,
and materials collected regarding the exhibition "Prospect 69" (Düsseldorf, 1969), which includes letters from artists and
gallery owners to Konrad Fischer and some Fluxus printed ephemera. The collection also contains miscellaneous drawings, typescripts
and photographs of Minimal and Conceptual works, and performances.
The collection is organized into five series:
Series I. Letters to Werner Lippert, 1972-1977;
Series II. Letters to Franco Toselli (Galleria Toselli), 1917-1989;
Series III. "Prospect 69" 1968-1978;
Series IV. Miscellaneous Drawings and Typescripts, 1975;
Series V. Miscellaneous Photographs, 1969-1981
Art, Modern--20th century
Conceptual Art
Earthworks (Art)
Fluxus (Group of artists)
Minimal art
Performance art
Drawings (visual works)
Photographic prints
Photographs, Original
Askevold, David
Fischer, Konrad
Galleria Toselli (Mila, Italy)
Graham, Dan, 1942-
Lippert, Werner, 1950-
Prospect 69 (1969 : Düsseldorf, Germany)
Salvo, 1947-
Wilson, Ian, 1940-