2013.21.49
Fifth Xerox
Artist
Daniel H. Graham
(Urbana, Illinois, 3/31/1942 - )
Title
Fifth Xerox
Creation Date
March 1966
Century
20th-early 21st century ?
Dimensions
8 1/2 x 11 in. (21.59 x 27.94 cm)
Object Type
print
Creation Place
North America, United States
Medium and Support
Xerox on paper
Credit Line
Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection
Copyright
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Accession Number
2013.21.49
A celebrated conceptual artist, Dan Graham launched his career in the visual arts by opening the John Daniels Gallery, which showed work by many artists who would come to be recognized as leaders of minimal and conceptual art, including Sol LeWitt, Donald Judd, Robert Smithson, and Dan Flavin. This pair of poems by Graham indicate his interest in language and concepts as a basis for art. Created using the relatively new technology of the Xerox, the works do not use precious materials, but rely instead upon the invocation and transformation of ideas. The dedication of the second (executed) version of the poem to the Vogels on the basis of this intellectual exchange reflects the strong bond that grew up between the collectors and Graham in the mid-1960s. As Dorothy recalls: “Dan Graham was important to us early in our collecting. … [Our] conversations with him were very stimulating, because he talked about the art of the time. Not that he told us what to buy. But he, like Sol LeWitt, sent us to different artists … So I credit a lot to him, as well as to Sol, for the early stimulus to the collection.”
