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Gregory Battcock (1937-1980) was an American art historian, art critic, and painter from New York City who wrote a series of Dutton paperbacks that anthologized critical writings on new art tendencies in contemporary art, such as Minimalism, Conceptual Art,[1] Video Art,[2]and Super Realism.[3] His first anthology, The New Art, was published in 1966 and revised in 1973.[4] Idea Art: A Critical Anthology, about conceptual art, was his most impactful book.[5]
- ^ Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, “Conceptual Art 1962–1969: From the Aesthetic of Administration to the Critique of Institutions,” October 55 (Winter 1990): 105–43
- ^ [1] Gregory Battcock by Douglas Davis at Artforum APRIL 1981 VOL. 19, NO.8
- ^ [2] TRANSFORMER: GREGORY BATTCOCK By David Joselit at Artforum
- ^ David Weinberg, “Blood of a Critic: Gregory Battcock’s Rise to Stardom and Fall from Grace,” Soho News, October 13, 1981
- ^ The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Volume 33, Issue 1, Autumn 1974, Pages 109–111, https://doi.org/10.2307/42896, 01 September 1974