Andy Warhol's Silver Flotations (4 min, 1966)
Andy Warhol's Silver Flotations is a portrait of Warhol's famous installation of floating silver helium-filled balloons at the Leo Castelli Gallery in 1966. Willard Maas's lyrical "film poem" is the only visual document of this seminal exhibition. - Ubuweb

WARHOL's CINEMA - A Mirror for the Sixties (1989) - Ubuweb

Allen Ginsberg - Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit - Ubuweb

Robert Frank - Pull My Daisy - Ubuweb

John Cage - For The Third Time, 4"33" - Ubuweb

J.G. Ballard - Shanghia Jim - Ubuweb

Richard Serra - Verb List Compilation: Actions to Relate to Oneself [1967-1968] - Ubuweb *Please Note: Not Video

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Marcel Duchamp - anemic Cinema
Robert Smithson - Spiral Jetty, excerpts
William Wegman - Selected Works, early 70's
Gilbert and George - The Ten Commandments of Gilbert and George
Peter Campus - Double Vision
Bruce Nauman - Pinch Neck, Stamping in the Studio
Robert Morris - Exchange
Bill Viola - Anthem
John Baldessari - Sings Sol Lewitt
Joeseph Beuys - Filz TV
Vito Acconci - Theme Song, Pryings, Open Book, Undertone

Image Above: John Baldessari. (American, born 1931). The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne. 1988. Illustrated book of three volumes including accordion-folded artist's book with fifty-eight photolithographs, page: 10 1/4 x 6 11/16" (26 x 17 cm). Publisher and printer: The Arion Press, San Francisco. Edition: 400. Johanna and Leslie J. Garfield Fund. Copyright 2007 John Baldessari

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Excerpts From Speculation (1967-1970)
Mel Bochner

For a variety of reasons I do not like the term “conceptual art.” Connotations of an easy dichotomy with perception are obvious and inappropriate. The unfortunate implication is of a somewhat magical/mystical leap from one mode of existence to another. The problem is the confusion of idealism and intention. By creating an original fiction, “conceptualism” posits its special nonempirical existence as a positive (transcendent) value. But no amount of qualification (or documentation) can change the situation. Outside the spoken word, no thought can exist without a sustaining support.

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