Selected Allan McCollum Texts
In downloadable PDF format
(listed alphabetically by author)

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ANASTAS, RHEA (2012)
In Every Act of Approaching a Painting

ANASTAS, RHEA (2003)
Allan McCollum: The Kansas and Missouri Topographical Model Project

BELL, TIFFANY (1979)
Allan McCollum [review]

BERNARD, PAUL (2011)
Interview with Allan McCollum, on Each and Every One of You [in French]
[in English here]

BOURRIAUD, NICOLAS (1988)
McCollum's Aura

BURTON, JOHANNA (2004)
Allan McCollum [review]

BUSKIRK, MARTHA (2012)
Allan McCollum's Curiosities, Natural and Cultural [excerpt]

BUSKIRK, MARTHA (2003)
Context As Subject [excerpt]

CATEFORIS, DAVID (2003)
A Map of the Divide

COHEN, MARK DANIEL (2000)
Allan McCollum The Event: Petrified Lightning
from Central Florida (With Supplemental Didactics)
[review]


COOKE, LYNNE (1989)
Allan McCollum: The Art of Duplicitous Ingemination

COOKE, LYNNE (1989)
Allan McCollum: Excerpts from an Interview,
on the
Lost Objects project,at the Carnegie Museum of Art


DAGBERT, ANNE (1998)
Allan McCollum: Le musée d'art moderne à Villeneuve d'Ascq [review]

DECTER, JOSHUA (1995)
Natural Copies at Weber Gallery [review]

DIEHL, TRAVIS (2020)
Piece Piece: Interview with Allan McCollum

DELLINGER, JADE (1998)
THE EVENT: Petrified Lightning from Central Florida
(with Supplemental Didactics): An Interview with Allan McCollum


DELLINGER, JADE (2013)
A Conversation with Allan McCollum: Mass-Producing Individual Works

DENAVE, JEAN-EMMANUEL (2010)
Un bain de multitude:
Each and Every One of You


ELGER, DIETMAR (1996)
Allan McCollum: from Artificial Surrogates to Natural Copies

ENRIGHT, ROBERT (2001)
No Things but in Ideas: An Interview with Allan McCollum

FOSTER, HAL (1986)
Subversive Signs [excerpt]

FRASER, ANDREA (1986)
Allan McCollum

FRASER, ANDREA (1988)
Individual Works: Allan McCollum

FRASER, ANDREA (1991)
May I Help You?

GABLIK, SUZI (1991)
The Reenchantment of Art [exerpt]

GARTENFELD, ALEX (2020)
Perpetual Canon: Interview with Allan McCollum

GASPARINA, JILL (2008)
L’art à une échelle de masse
Sur
The Shapes Project d’Allan McCollum [in French]


GINTZ, CLAUDE (1984)
Allan McCollum

GOLUB, ADRIENNE M. (1999)
Bolts from the Blue

GRAPHICSTUDIO (2004)
Each and Every One of You

HELFAND, JESSICA (2007)
The Illusion of Certainty (on The Shapes Project)

INSIDE THE STUDIO: ICI STUDIO TALK (2004)
Transcription excerpts from a 1991 talk

KALINA, RICHARD (1992)
Lost and Found

KASTNER, JEFFREY (1993)
Allan McCollum: Drawings

KASTNER, JEFFREY (2020)
Allan McCollum, Signs of the Imperial Valley:
Sand Spikes from Mount Signal, 2020


KLEIN, ALEX (2008)
Allan McCollum and Allen Ruppersberg:
Conversation on their work and friendship,
at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art


KRAUSS, ROSALIND (1996)
Formless: A User's Guide to Entropy [excerpt]

KYANDER, PONTUS (2001)
Allan McCollum: The New City Markers

LAWSON, THOMAS (1992)
Interview with Allan McCollum

LEVY, ELLEN K. (1996)
Repetition and the scientific model in art

LINKER, KATE (1984)
Louise Lawler / Allan McCollum
Ideal Settings: For Presentation and Display
[review]


LOVELACE, CAREY (2001)
Allan McCollum: The Event: Petrified Lightning from Central Florida (with Supplemental Didactics) [review]

MALONE, MEREDITH (2017)
Allan McCollum's Unstretched Canvases

MARKS, MARYJO (2012)
Allan McCollum's Supplements, More or Less

MASHECK, JOSEPH (1985)
Allan McCollum's Perpetual Photos

McCOLLUM, ALLAN (2000)
The Small World Drawings

McCOLLUM, ALLAN (2006)
Allan McCollum Interviews Harrell Fletcher

McCOLLUM, ALLAN (2006)
The Shapes Project: Introduction

McCOLLUM, ALLAN (2007)
The Shapes Project: Explained to Children

McMAHON, PAUL (1983)
From the Permanent Collection

MEINHARDT, JOHANNES (1994)
Painting as Empty Space: Allan McCollum's Subversion of the Last Painting

MENU, MICHEL (2000)
Coups de foudre: les fulgurites d'Allan McCollum [in French]

MILLER, JOHN (1987)
What You Don't See Is What You Get: Allan Mccollum's Surrogates, Perpetual Photos and Perfect Vehicles

MILLER, JOHN (1988)
Allan McCollum: Individual Works [review]

MITCHELL, W.J.T. (1998)
Excerpt from: The Last Dinosaur Book: Paleoart

MOLESWORTH, HELEN (1998)
Impossible Objects: Man-Made Fulgurites by Allan McCollum

MOLESWORTH, HELEN (2005)
Allan McCollum: The Perfect Vehicles and Over Ten Thousand Individual Works

NITTVE, LARS (1990)
Coda

OWENS, CRAIG (1983)
Repetition & Difference

PRINCENTHAL, NANCY (2007)
Shape Shifter

QUÉLOZ, CATHERINE (1996)
Interview with Allan McCollum

RICHARD, FRANCES (2001)
THE EVENT: Petrified Lightning from Central Florida (with Supplemental Didactics) [review]

ROBBINS, DA (1984)
Interview with Allan McCollum

RORIMER, ANNE (1989)
Self-Referentiality and Mass-Production in the Work of Allan McCollum 1969-1989

SALVIONI, DANIELA (1986)
Interview with McCollum and Koons

SHOTTENKIRK, DENA (1990)
Allan McCollum: Drawings [review]

SHOTTENKIRK, DENA (2000)
Allan McCollum: The Event: Petrified Lightning from Central Florida (with Supplemental Didactics) [review]

SMITH, ROBERTA (1986)
Allan McCollum and Laurie Simmons, Actual Photos [review]

SMITH, ROBERTA (2004)
Allan McCollum: Perpetual Photos, Recognizable Image Drawings and Perfect Vehicles [review]

STARKE, TREVOR (2011)
Allan McCollum: Plaster Surrogates

TONE, LILIAN (2008)
Allan McCollum: Interview by Lilian Tone on the Drawings project for the 28th SÃO PAULO BIENAL

WATSON, GRAY (1985)
Interview with Allan McCollum

WHEATLEY, CHARMAINE (2009)
Allan McCollum: Shapes from Maine [review]

YAPELLI, TINA (2000)
SIGNS OF THE IMPERIAL VALLEY: Sand Spikes from Mount Signal
INTRODUCTION TO
THE SHAPES PROJECT
The SHAPES Project

PRESS RELEASE FOR EXHIBITION
AT FRIEDRICH PETZEL GALLERY,
NEW YORK CITY, SEPTEMBER 1 — OCTOBER 2, 2004:
PERPETUAL PHOTOS and THE KANSAS AND MISSOURI
TOPOGRAPHICAL MODEL DONATION PROJECT

Petzel Press Release

PRESS RELEASE FOR INSTALLATION
IN CENTRAL PARK,
NEW YORK CITY, SEPTEMBER 8 2004 — FEBRUARY, 2005:
THREE PERFECT VEHICLES
Public Art Fund Press Release

PRESS RELEASE FOR EXHIBITION
AT FRIEDRICH PETZEL GALLERY,
NEW YORK CITY, NOVEMBER, 2000: THE EVENT:
PETRIFIED LIGHTNING FROM CENTRAL FLORIDA
(WITH SUPPLEMENTARY DIDACTICS)

Petzel Press Release

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