If you are listening to our Bad Vibes Club podcast mini-series, ‘Ten Texts on Sculpture’, then this is the place to find the downloadable PDFs. Listen to the podcast here.
Episode 1: Duchamp and the Handmade
Molesworth, Helen. ‘Duchamp by Hand, Even’. In Part Object Part Sculpture. Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005. Download PDF.
Molesworth, Helen. ‘My Funny Valentine: Étant Donnés’. Artforum International, New York, 2010. Download PDF.
Episode 2: Robert Gober and the Part Object
Foster, Hal. ‘An Art of Missing Parts’. October, no. 92 (2000). Download PDF.
Fried, Michael. ‘Art and Objecthood’. In Art in Theory 1900-2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas, 322-384. Malden, Massachusetts, Oxford, England: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. Download PDF.
Episode 3: Phyllida Barlow
Barlow, Phyllida. ‘Artist Proposal’. Tate. Accessed 17 July 2023. Download PDF or Read Online.
Barlow, Phyllida. ‘The Hatred of the Object’, 1997. Download PDF
Barlow, Phyllida, Mark Godfrey, Alison Wilding, and Jon Wood. ‘Hearsay, Rumours, Bed-Sit Dreamers and Art Begins Today’. In Objects for --: And Other Things, 210–15. London: Black Dog, 2004. Download PDF
Episode 4: Sculpture in the Expanded Field
Krauss, Rosalind. ‘Sculpture in the Expanded Field’. October 8, no. Spring (1979): 30–44. Download PDF
Post, Tina. ‘Minimalism and the Aesthetics ofBlack Threat’. In Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression. Minoritarian Aesthetics. New York: New York University Press, 2023. Download PDF
Episode 5: Sculpture and Ritual
Shopping Bag Spirits and Freeway Fetishes: Reflections on Ritual Space. Digital video, color, 1981. https://vimeo.com/7777082 & https://vimeo.com/8264658
Goode-Bryant, Linda, and Marcy S. Philips. ‘Contextures’. In Contextures, 37–78. Just Above Midtown, 1978. Download PDF here.
Episode 6: Entropy
Smithson, Robert. ‘Entropy and the New Monuments’. Artforum, 1966. https://holtsmithsonfoundation.org/entropy-and-new-monuments. Download PDF.
McArthur, Park, and Jennifer Staton, eds. Beverly Buchanan: 1978 - 1981. Mexico City: Athénée Press, 2015. Download PDF.
Episode 7: Park McArthur
Blackley, Andrew. ‘Park McArthur: Geometry, Material, Scale’. Afterall, 2015. Download PDF.
BOMB Magazine. ‘BOMB Magazine | Park McArthur Interviewed’, 19 February 2014. https://bombmagazine.org/articles/park-mcarthur/. Download PDF.
Lippard, Lucy. ‘Preface’, Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972. London: University of California Press, 2010. Download PDF.
MacArthur, Park. ‘Sort of Like a Hug: Notes on Collectivity, Conviviality and Care’. The Happy Hypocrite, no. 7 (2014): 48–60. Download PDF.
Episode 8: Sculptural Pedagogy
Crippa, Elena. ‘From “Crit” to “Lecture Performance”’. In The London Art Schools: Reforming the Art World, 1960 to Now. London: Tate Publishing, 2015. Download PDF.
Harding, David. ‘ENVIRONMENTAL ART AT GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART – David Harding’. https://www.davidharding.net/. Accessed 26 April 2022. https://www.davidharding.net/?page_id=402. Download PDF.
Episode 9: The Non-Object
Asbury, Michael. ‘Neoconcretism And Minimalism: On Ferreira Gullar’s Theory Of The Non-Object’. In Cosmopolitan Modernisms, 168–89. Annotating Art’s Histories. London: Iniva, 2005. Download PDF
Rolnik, Suely. ‘Molding a Contemporary Soul: The Empty-Full of Lygia Clark’. In The Experimental Exercise of Freedom: Lygia Clark, Gego, Mathias Goeritz, Hélio Oiticica, Mira Schendel, edited by Rina Carvajal and Alma Ruiz. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1999. Download PDF
Episode 10: Maintenance
Miller, M. H. ‘What It’s Like to Live With Art That Doesn’t Love You Back’. The New York Times, 22 September 2017, sec. T Magazine. Download PDF.
Lerner, Ben. ‘The Custodians’. The New Yorker, 3 January 2016. Download PDF.
Reckitt, Helena. ‘Forgotten Relations: Feminist Artists and Relational Aesthetics’. In Politics in a Glass: Case Feminism, Exhibition Cultures and Curatorial Transgressions, edited by Angela Dimitrakaki and Lara Perry, 7:131–56. Value: Art: Politics. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2013. Download PDF.