Exceptionally important critical anthology of early writings on Minimal and Conceptual Art edited by Gregory Battcock. Essays "Systemic Painting," by Lawrence Alloway; "Sculpture as Architecture: New York Letter, 1966-67," by Michael Benedikt; "Serial Art, Systems, Solipsism," by Mel Bochner; "The Razed Sites of Carl Andre," by David Bourdon; "Subject Matter in the Work of Barnett Newman," by Nicolas Calas; "Art and Objecthood," by Michael Fried; "Questions to Stella and Judd," by Bruce Glaser; "Two Exhibitions," by E.C. Goossen; "Recentness of Sculpture," by Clement Greenberg; "Mannerism in the Abstract," by Peter Hutchinson; "A Systematic Revery from Abstraction to Now," by David Lee; Minimal Art and Primary Meanings," by Allen Leepa; "Eros Presumptive," by Lucy R. Lippard; "Notes on Sculpture," by Robert Morris: "Literalness and the Infinite," by Toby Mussman; "Minus Plato," by Brian O'Doherty; "Minimal Abstracts," by John Perreault; "A Quasi Survey of Some 'Minimalist' Tendencies in the Quantitatively Minimal Dance Activity Midst the Plethora, or an Analysis of Trio A," by Yvonne Rainer; "A B C Art," by Barbara Rose; "Defining Art," by Harold Rosenberg; "Gesture and Non-Gesture in Recent Sculpture," by Irving Sandler; "Luminism and Kineticism," by Willoughby Sharp; "Schemata 7," by Elayne Varian; "Talking with Tony Smith," by Samuel Wagstaff Jr.; "Minimal Art," by Richard Wollheim; "Writings," by Martial Raysse, Dan Flavin, and Robert Smithson.