Stephen J. Kaltenbach: Another Year in La.(Los Angeles)(forty-year minisurvey of conceptual art)

Recording Conceptual Art, Alexander Alberro's 2001 edition of Patricia Norvell's fascinating 1969 audio interviews, helps recall the mellow Other to Conceptual art's frequently stern diagrammatics: Dennis Oppenheim's sunburns, Robert Barry's belief in telepathy and the invisible, and Stephen J.

Kaltenbach's experiments with astrology, ESP, and weed. Norvell taped Kaltenbach talking about smoking pot for the first time: "I could remove myself from my ego a little bit and see myself and my work more clearly." A year later, in a lengthy interview for Artforum, Kaltenbach ...

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