Title: For Publication
Artist: Dan Graham
Publisher: First published by Otis Art Institute Gallery, Los Angeles, 1975 | Reprinted by Marian Goodman Gallery, 1991
Format: 32 pages, 22.4 x 27.3 cm
ISBN: none
Dan Graham’s book For Publication contains a selection of his own realized artworks for publication in mass media. He had his works printed in existing journalistic apparatus like art and fashion papers—magazines such as Art and Language, Interfunktionen, or Harper’s Bazaar—therewith inscribing himself as an author in the respective media reality while actively shaping it as well. For Publication can be read as an open call by the artist to occupy the public realm of mass media, drawing from linguistic analytical paradigms of Middle Age universal scholars like Ramon Lull or modern writers such as Jorge Luis Borges and Stéphane Mallarmé, whom the artist explicitly referenced in his publication.