Art Journal | Vol. 42, No. 2 (Summer 1982)

Art Journal

Vol. 42, No. 2 (Summer 1982)

New York City, USA:  College Art Association of America, Inc., 1982

184 pp., 27.7 x 21.5 cm., softcover

Edition size unknown

Guest edited by Clive Phillpot, the Summer 1982 issue of Art Journal features a cover by Davi Det Hompson that reads “You should see the pages I’ve been typing. You should see the pages I’ve ben typing”. 

It also includes Kangaroo? (Some Songs byArt & Language and the Red Crayola), Why Write? by Daniel Buren, Color/Language Studies 1973-82 by lain Baxter, Extracts from Personhood's Self-Cancellation by Henry Flynt, Notes from Art by Lawrence Weiner, The Definitive/ist Manifesto by the Guerilla Art Action Group, and contributions by Ben Vautier, Les Levine, Jenny Holzer, John Baldessari and others. 

The periodical is available from Specific Object, for $75 US, here. 

"The best example I have found, post-XTC, benefits from an additional measure of ambiguity. Go 2’s visual rigour links it to the text-based conceptual art of its day and FitzGerald’s cover has a similarly exacting air. Arriving four years after Go 2 [see previous post], an issue of Art Journal devoted to ‘Words and Wordworks’ takes textual self-reflexiveness a step further by printing the same cover line – ‘You should see the pages I’ve been typing ’ – twice between scratchy rules. Davi Det Hompson’s blown-up, ink-splodged letters clatter with resonance. The Fluxus artist and concrete poet’s work can be found inside the issue. I rarely say it, but here less is more."

- Rick Poynor, Eye no. 104 vol. 26, 2023