DAN FLAVIN
1933, New York - 1996
| EPHEMERA AND POSTERS | ||
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| An Exposition of Fluorescent Light [large poster / brochure] | Penn State University | 1968 |
| Coolwhite, etc. from Dan Falvin | Dwan Gallery | 1968 |
| corneredinstallations 1963 - 1970 [poster] | Dwan Gallery | 1970 |
| Dan Flavin | Otis Art Institute Gallery, Los Angeles | 1976 |
| Dan Flavin: Colored Fluoresent Light | Leo Castelli, New York | 1976 |
| Dan Flavin: Diagrams for Circular Fluorescent Light | Leo Castelli, New York | 1973 |
| Dan Flavin: Fluorescent Light | Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich | 1969 |
| Dan Flavin: Fluorescent Light | Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf | 1969 |
| Dan Flavin Retrospective [as titled when the traveling exhibition that originated in Ottawa "fluorescent light, etc. from Dan Flavin" came to the Jewish Museum - 36" x 4" announcement (when unfoled) that has the image of a fluorescent tube with text on one side and blank on the other] | The Jewish Museum, New York | 1970 |
| Dan Flavin: to the citizens of the Republic of France on the 200th anniversary of their revolution [large folded invitation with image] | Leo Castelli, New York | 1989 |
| Four "Monuments" for Tatlin 1964-1969 From Dan Flavin [mid-size poster] | Leo Castelli, New York | 1970 |
| I Believe Him [poster] | Art for McGovern, Houston, Texas | 1972 |
| large installations by Dan Flavin | Heiner Friedrich, New York | 1977 |
| new drawings, diagrams and prints from Dan Flavin (to Sabine) [square single fold announcement - yellow front, no text, red inside fold with text] | Leo Castelli, New York | 1989 |
| Some Light [announcement and bio - Flavin's second solo exhibition, the first to include fluorescent and other lights] | Kaymar Gallery, New York | 1964 |
| some uneven cool white circular fluorescent light for the new, even walls | Castelli Gallery, New York | 1974 |
| INDIVIDUAL CATALOGUES | ||
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| fluorescent light, etc. from Dan Flavin | National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa / Vancouver Art Gallery / also traveled to The Jewish Museum, New York in 1970 | 1969 |
| Dan Flavin | Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles County | 1976 |
| Dan Flavin: A Retrospective | Dia Art Foundation / National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. | 2004 |
| Dan Flavin: drawings, diagrams, prints 1972-1975 / Dan Flavin: installations in fluorescent light 1972-1975 [exhibitions held in 1975 - 1976 - catalogue 1977] | The Forth Worth Art Museum, Texas | 1977* |
| Dan Flavin: The Architecture of Light | Guggenheim Museum | 1999 |
| Dan Flavin: The 1964 Green Gallery Installation | Zwirner & Wirth / Steidl, New York | 2008 |
| "monuments" for V. Tatlin from Dan Flavin, 1964-1982 | The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles | 1989 |
| DOCUMENTS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS | ||
| John Weber Gallery Newsletter | John Weber Gallery | 1975 |
| BOOKS BY OR ABOUT FLAVIN | ||
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| Dan Flavin: The Complete Lights 1961-1996 [published in conjunction with the exhibition Dan Flavin: A Retrospective] | Dia Art Foundation / Yale University Press | 2004 |
| "monuments" for V. Tatlin from Dan Flavin, 1964 -1982 | The Museum of Contemporary Art, L.A. | 1989 |
| ARTICLES AND INTERVIEWS BY OR WITH FLAVIN | ||
| "... on an American artist's education..." | Artforum, March | 1968 |
| Some Remarks...Excerpts from a Spleenish Journal | in Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings | 1996 |
| SELECTED CATALOGUES INCLUDING FLAVIN | ||
| A Different War: Vietnam in Art [mentioned in Lippard's essays, not in the exhibition] | Independent Curators Incorporated, New York [traveled] | 1990 |
| A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968 | The Museum of Contemporary Art, L.A. | 2004 |
| Art in Space: Some Turning Points | The Detroit Institute of Arts | 1973 |
| Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940s-1970s | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | 2004 |
| Blam! The Explosion of Pop, Minimalism and Performance 1958-1964 | Whitney Museum of American Art | 1984 |
| Blurring the Boundries: Installation Art 1969-1996 | Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego | 1996 |
| Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today | Museum of Modern Art, New York | 2008 |
| Dia: Beacon [Collection Catalogue] | Dia Art Foundation | 2003 |
| Dia Chelsea [periodic exhibition brochures in binder] - '97 - '98 | Dia Chelsea, New York | 1981- |
| Diagrams & Drawings | Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo | 1972 |
| Documenta 4 [curator: Arnold Bode] | Kassel, Germany | 1968 |
| Documenta 6 [curator: Manfred Schneckenburger] | Kassel, Germany | 1977 |
| Exhibition to Benefit the Student Mobilization Committee to End the Vietnam War [no catalogue, included as a point of information] | Paula Cooper Gallery | 1968 |
| Focus on Light | The New Jersey State Museum, Trenton | 1967 |
| Function of Drawing | Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo | 1975 |
| Guggenheim International | Guggenheim Museum | 1971 |
| Minimal Art [in German] | Akademie der Kunste, Berlin | 1969 |
| Other Ideas | The Detroit Institute of Arts | 1969 |
| Primary Structures: Younger American and British Sculptors | The Jewish Museum, New York | 1966 |
| Pulsa 2: Report on a Phenomenon [curator: Phyllis Plous] | University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, California | 1990 |
| San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art: A Selections from the Permanent Collection | San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art | 1990 |
| Sculpture Since the Sixties: from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art | Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitqble Center | 1989 |
| Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art from 1951 to the Present | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | 2004 |
| Spaces | MoMA, NY | 1970 |
| 10 | Dwan Gallery | 1966 |
| Wall Works: Wall Installations in Editions 1992-93 | Edition Schellmann, Koln and New York | 1993 |
| Whitney Museum Sculpture Annual 1970 [his work in this exhibition was dedicated to the students killed at Kent State and Jackson State] | Whitney Museum of American Art | 1970 |
| Wide White Space 1966-1976 Behind the Museum | Palis des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles | 1995 |
| Working Drawings and other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to be Viewed as Art | Walther Konig, Koln | 1966/ 1997 |
| Works for New Spaces | Walker Art Center, Minneapolis | 1971 |
| SELECTED BOOKS INCLUDING FLAVIN | ||
| Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation | The New Museum of Contemporary Art | 1984 |
| Art and Artifact: The Museum as Medium | Thames & Hudson | 2001 |
| Art & Technology: A Report on the Art & Technology Program of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1967-1971 | Los Angeles County Museum of Art / The Viking Press | 1971 |
| Art in the Land: A Critical Anthology of Environmental Art | E. P. Dutton | 1983 |
| Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam Era | University of California Press | 2009 |
| Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture | University of California Press | 1992 |
| Conceptual Art | Phaidon | 1998 |
| Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity | MIT Press | 2003 |
| 5000 Artists Return to Artists Space: 25 Years | Artists Space / D.A.P. Press | 1998 |
| From Margin to Center: The Spaces of Installation Art | MIT Press | 1999 |
| From the Center: feminist essays on women's art | Dutton | 1976 |
| Get the Message? A Decade of Art for Social Change [Lucy Lippard] | E.P. Dutton | 1984 |
| Great Western Salt Works: essays on the meaning of Post-Formalist art | George Braziller | 1974 |
| Idea Art: A Critical Anthology | Dutton | 1973 |
| Land Art | Tate Publishing | 2006 |
| Minimal Art: A Critical Survey | E.P. Dutton & Co. | 1968 |
| Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties | Yale University Press | 2001 |
| New Art in the 60s and 70s: Redefining Reality | Thames and Hudson | 2001 |
| On the Museum's Ruins | MIT Press | 1993 |
| Out of the Box: The Reinvention of Art, 1965-1975 | School of Visual Arts | 2000 |
| Rewriting Conceptual Art | Reaktion Books [Critical Views], London | 1999 |
| Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art #2 | Dia Art Foundation | 2004 |
| SoHo: The Rise and Fall of an Artists' Colony | Routledge | 2003 |
| The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art | MIT Press | 2003 |
| The New Avant-Garde: Issues for the Art of the Seventies | Praeger | 1972 |
| Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings | University of California Press | 1996 |
| Thinking About Exhibitions | Routledge | 1996 |
| PERIODICALS INCLUDING FLAVIN | ||
| Art in America [Light Art] | May-June | 1967 |
| Art in America [The Emperor's New Bikini by Hilton Kramer] | January-February | 1969 |
| Art in America [The View from the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago] | May-June | 1972 |
| Art in America [Report from Italy: Count Panza Divests] | December | 1984 |
| Artforum ["Entropy and the New Momuments" by Robert Smithson] | June | 1966 |
| Artforum [Jack Burnham: Systems Esthetics] | September | 1968 |
| Artforum [Flavin 'According to His Light'] | April | 1977 |
| Art International [A Museum of Language in the Vicinity of Art by Robert Smithson] | March | 1968 |
| Art International [Minimal Art at the Hague] | May 15 | 1968 |
| Arts Magazine | February | 1970 |
| Frieze [Labours of Love - Flavin and Oppenheim] | November - December | 2001 |
| Parkett # 22 | Parkett | 1989 |
| Trans> arts.cultures.media # 2 | Passim, Inc. | 1996 |
| EXHIBITION REVIEWS | ||
| Dan Flavin at Dwan | Artforum, January | 1969 |
| Dan Flavin Retrospective in Ottawa [a multi-page review by Jack Burnham with numerous installation views] | Artforum, December | 1969 |
| Dan Flavin at John Weber | Arts Magazine, April | 1973 |
| Dan Flavin at Castelli | Artforum, February | 1973 |
| Dan Flavin at Castelli | Art in America, January | 1980 |
| Dan Flavin at Serpentine Gallery, London | Frieze, November-December | 2001 |
| ADVERTISEMENTS | ||
| Dan Flavin at Dwan | Artforum, November | 1968 |
| Dan Flavin at John Weber | Artforum, February | 1973 |