MENACE

20,5×20,5 cm. 4pp. Announcement / catalogue – apparently the only printed document produced for the exhibition – for an intriguing institutional show curated by the visionary Stephen Prokopoff who had an eye for emerging or neglected artists and to genres like comics, folk and outsider art. Participating artists: Bruce Conner, Nancy Grossman, Peter Gutkin, Edward Kienholz, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Dennis Oppenheim, Robert Smithson, Paul Thek, Andy Warhol. Document features work checklist and text by Prokopoff. Near Fine. "The artistic evocation of dread is used in this exhibition as a means of exploring the concept of the work of art as a structure that includes non-visual elements – association and expectation, psychologically charged text and sound – as essential components in its total expressive design. While other themes could have been selected, Menace is able to encompass a varied constellation of gestures and to offer an emotionally potent subject particularly appropriate to the artistic method found in these works. (…)" Stephen Prokopoff.…