{"id":446,"date":"2006-08-31T08:29:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T08:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=446"},"modified":"2006-08-31T08:29:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-31T08:29:00","slug":"late-but-short-summertime-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=446","title":{"rendered":"Late, but short summertime reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I was clicking around the ubuweb, I came upon this great page of links to many of the seminal minimalist texts. These are not manifesto&#8217;s per se, but they do give a great understanding of approach and process. So as far as minimal\/conceptual texts go, these are easy to digest as well as easy to read. By the way, who write manifesto&#8217;s anymore other than the unabomber?<\/p>\n<p>I also found a great Ed Ruscha text well worth the time to read.<\/p>\n<p>Mel Bochner &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubu.com\/papers\/bochner_speculation.html\" target=\"_new\">Excerpts From Speculation (1967-1970)<\/a> <br \/>Joseph Kosuth &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubu.com\/papers\/kosuth_philosophy.html\" target=\"_new\">Art After Philosophy (1969)<\/a> <br \/>Sol Lewitt &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubu.com\/papers\/lewitt_sentences.html\" target=\"_new\">Sentences on Conceptual Art (1968)<\/a> <br \/> Robert Morris &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubu.com\/papers\/morris_statements.html\" target=\"_new\">Statements (1970)<\/a> <br \/>Ed Ruscha &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubu.com\/papers\/ruscha_publications.html\" target=\"_new\">Edward Ruscha Discusses His Perplexing Publications (1965)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was clicking around the ubuweb, I came upon this great page of links to many of the seminal minimalist texts. These are not manifesto&#8217;s per se, but they do give a great understanding of approach and process. So as far as minimal\/conceptual texts go, these are easy to digest as well as easy to read. By the way, who write manifesto&#8217;s anymore other than the unabomber? I also found a great Ed Ruscha text well worth the time to read. Mel Bochner &#8211; Excerpts From Speculation (1967-1970) Joseph Kosuth &#8211; Art After Philosophy (1969) Sol Lewitt &#8211; Sentences&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=446\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Late, but short summertime reading<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}