ALLAN McCOLLUM Selected Texts: Articles, Monographs, Interviews, and Reviews

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ALL THE TEXTS THAT FOLLOW ARE COPYRIGHTED BY THE AUTHORS, AND ARE REPRODUCED HERE FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. NONE OF THE TEXTS MAY BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM THE AUTHOR.  JEFFREY KASTNER (2020)  Allan McCollum - Signs of the Imperial Valley: Sand Spikes from Mount Signal, 2020  MEREDITH MALONE (2017)  Allan McCollum's Unstretched Canvases  JADE DELLINGER (2013)  A Conversation with Allan McCollum: Mass-Producing Individual Works  RHEA ANASTAS (2012)  In Every Act of Approaching a Painting  MARTHA BUSKIRK (2012)  Allan McCollum's Curiosities, Natural and Cultural  MARYJO MARKS (2012)  Allan McCollum's Supplements, More or Less  TREVOR STARKE (2011)  Allan McCollum: Plaster Surrogates  DAVID JOSELIT (2011)  Signal Processing: On Abstraction Then and Now  PAUL BERNARD (2010)  Interview with Allan McCollum on Each and Every One of You [or, in French here ]  JEAN-EMMANUEL DENAVE (2010)  Un bain de multitude: Each and Every One of You [review, in French, from Le Petit Bulletin ]  SHAPES FOR HAMILTON,  SOME TEXTS AND PICTURES (2010)  News on the Shapes for Hamilton project: a unique Shapes print for each of the 6,000+ residents of the township of Hamilton, New York  CHARMAINE WHEATLEY (2009)  Allan McCollum: Shapes From Maine [review]  ALEX KLEIN, moderator (2008)  Allan McCollum & Allen Ruppersberg: Conversation on their work and friendship, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art  JILL GASPARINA (2008)  L’art à une échelle de masse Sur The Shapes Project d’Allan McCollum [in French]  NANCY PRINCENTHAL (2007)  Shape Shifter: Allan McCollum's Shapes Project  JESSICA HELFAND (2007)  The Illusion of Certainty: The Shapes Project  HELEN MOLESWORTH (2005)  Allan McCollum: The Perfect Vehicles and Over Ten Thousand Individual Works  JOHANNA BURTON (2004)  Allan McCollum: Perpetual Photos & The Recognizable Image Drawings [Artforum review]  ROBERTA SMITH (2004)  Allan McCollum: Perpetual Photos & The Recognizable Image Drawings [NY Times review]  DAVID CATEFORIS (2003)  A Map of the Divide: The Kansas and Missouri Topographical Model Project (and a brief interview with the artist)  RHEA ANASTAS (2003)  Allan McCollum: The Kansas and Missouri Topographical Model Project  MARTHA BUSKIRK (2003)  Context As Subject [excerpt]  ROBERT ENRIGHT (2001)  No Things but in Ideas: An Interview with Allan McCollum  FRANCES RICHARD (2001)  Allan McCollum: THE EVENT: Petrified Lightning from Central Florida (with Supplemental Didactics) [review]  PONTUS KYANDER (2001)  Allan McCollum: The New City Markers  TINA YAPELLI (2001)  SIGNS OF THE IMPERIAL VALLEY: Sand Spikes from Mount Signal  CAREY LOVELACE (2001)  Allan McCollum: THE EVENT: Petrified Lightning from Central Florida (with Supplemental Didactics) [review]  MARK DANIEL COHEN (2000)  Allan McCollum: THE EVENT: Petrified Lightning from Central Florida (with Supplemental Didactics) [review]  AMY JEAN PORTER (2000)  Allan McCollum: THE EVENT: Petrified Lightning from Central Florida (with Supplemental Didactics) [review]  DENA SHOTTENKIRK (2000) Allan McCollum: THE EVENT: Petrified Lightning from Central Florida (with Supplemental Didactics) [review]  MICHEL MENU (2000) Coups de foudre: les fulgurites d'Allan McCollum   [ In French ]    JOHANNES MEINHARDT (2000)  Zeichen, Kopien, Stellvertreter, Abdrücke, Spuren   [ In German ]    CATE McQUAID (2000)  Allan McCollum: The Small World Drawings [review]  ADRIENNE M. GOLUB (1999)   Bolt from the Blue The Event: Petrified Lightning from Central Florida; (with Supplemental Didactics) [review]  JADE DELLINGER (1998)  The Event: Petrified Lightning from Central Florida (with Supplemental Didactics): An Interview with Allan McCollum  ANNE DAGBERT (1998)  Allan McCollum: Musee d'Art Moderne [review]  W. J. T. MITCHELL (1998)  The Last Dinosaur Book: Paleoart [excerpt]  HELEN MOLESWORTH (1998)  Impossible Objects: Man-Made fulgurites by Allan McCollum  ROSALIND KRAUSS (1996)  Formless: A User's Guide [excerpt]  CATHERINE QUÉLOZ (1996)  Interview with Allan McCollum  DIETMAR ELGER (1996)  From Artificial Surrogates to Natural Copies  REPRINTS (1996)  Dinosaur track texts project  JOSHUA DECTER (1995)  Natural Copies at Weber Gallery [review]  GEORGE MELROD (1995)  Natural Copies at Weber Gallery [review]  JOHANNES MEINHARDT (1994)  Painting as Empty Space: Allan McCollum's Subversion of the Last Painting  ANNE RORIMER (1994)  Allan McCollum: Systeme ästhetischer und (Massen-)Produktion [in German]  MARKUS BRUDERLIN (1994)  The Trials of the Picture in the Eighties  SISTER WENDY BECKETT (1993) Allan McCollum, Five Perfect Vehicles  JEFFREY KASTNER (1993)  Allan McCollum: Drawings  THOMAS LAWSON (1992)  Interview with Allan McCollum  RICHARD KALINA (1992)  Lost and Found  WADE SAUNDERS (1992) Making Artists Making Art [excerpt]  LYNNE COOKE (1991)  Interview with Allan McCollum  ANDREA FRASER (1991)  May I Help You? [performance script]  SUZI GABLIK (1991)  The Reenchanment of Art [excerpt]  ICI STUDIO TALK (1991)  Excerpts from a transcription of a studio talk (Published by Independent Curators International, in 2004)  DENA SHOTTENKIRK (1990)  Drawings at Weber Gallery [review]  LIAM GILLICK (1990)  Allan McCollum at the Serpentine [review].  LARS NITTVE (1990)  Allan McCollum, Coda  LYNNE COOKE (1989)  Allan McCollum: The Art of Duplicitous Ingemination  ANN GOLDSTEIN (1989) Allan McCollum  ANNE RORIMER (1989)  Self-Referentiality and Mass-Production in the Work of Allan McCollum 1969-1989  SELMA KLEIN ESSINK (1989)  Allan McCollum; The Function, Meaning and Value of an Artwork  KEVIN POWER (1989)  Interview with Allan McCollum  TRICIA COLLINS & RICHARD MILAZZO (1989)  Double Talk. Quantity and Immanence. Allan McCollum  ANDREA FRASER (1988)  Individual Works: Allan McCollum  NICOLAS BOURRIAUD (1988)  McCollum's Aura  ULRICH WILMES (1988)  Allan McCollum: Works 1978-1988  JOHN MILLER (1988)  Allan McCollum: Individual Works [review]  HOLLAND COTTER (1988)  Allan McCollum [review]  ROBERTA SMITH (1988)  Allan McCollum: Glossies & Individual Works [review]  DOUGLAS C. McGILL (1988)  Allan McCollum: Individual Works [review & profile]  ROBERT C. MORGAN (1988)  Allan McCollum's: Perfect Vehicles  RONALD JONES (1987)  As Though We Knew What To Do  JOHN MILLER (1987)  What You See is What You Don't Get: Allan McCollum's Surrogates, Perpetual Photos, and Perfect Vehicles  ANDREA FRASER (1986)  Allan McCollum  HAL FOSTER (1986)  Subversive Signs [excerpt]  DANIELA SALVIONI (1986)  Interview with McCollum and Koons  GRAY WATSON (1985)  Interview with Allan McCollum  JOSEPH MASHECK (1985)  Allan McCollum, Perpetual Photos  CLAUDE GINTZ (1984)  Allan McCollum  DA ROBBINS (1984)  Interview with Allan McCollum  CRAIG OWENS (1983)  Repetition & Difference  PAUL McMAHON (1983)  From the Permanent Collection  THOMAS LAWSON (1983)  Allan McCollum: Plaster Surrogates [review]  TIFFANY BELL (1979)  Allan McCollum: Surrogate Paintings [review]

SELECTED TEXTS, ETC.

INTERVIEWS AND TEXTS BY THE ARTIST

OTHER TEXTS

PROJECTS

BIOGRAPHY/BIBLIOGRAPHY

DESCRIPTIONS
of different series, 1969-2009

ALBUM
selection of pictures


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