On View in the Permanent Collection of the Dallas Museum of Art

This poster was designed by Michael Corris for the occasion of a lecture at his former graduate school, delivered jointly with Andrew Menard. The poet Emmanuel Navaretta—a controversial lecturer at the Hoffberger School of Painting, MICA who dared to teach a course on Structuralism and Post-Structuralism—sponsored this talk. Our presentation consisted of excerpts from our recently published articles in The Fox 1 (1975). During the talk, we were pelted with soda cans by some members of the audience. There was a great silence during our train ride back to New York with Navaretta, who was shocked at our attitude towards the use of Abstract Expressionism as a soft power weapon of the Cold War.

This poster was designed in New York by Michael Corris and printed in Belgrade, October 1975. It advertised the series of conversations led by Jill Breakstone, Michael Corris, and Andrew Menard that took place at the Student Cultural Center, Belgrade. The text—in English on the left and Serbo-Croatian on the right—was authored collectively in New York by participants in Art & Language. It presents a series of reflections on the problematic nature of international exhibitions and was intended to function as a prompt for the conversations that would take place between us and artists, critics, and curators working in Belgrade. This project was only possible thanks to our previous relationship with the late Jasna Tijardovic (curator at Museum of Modern Art, Belgrade) and Zoran Popovic (Conceptual artist) while on a research visit to New York. For more on the relationship between this project, our colleagues in Belgrade, and a similar project that took place in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, see Robert Bailey, Art & Language International: Conceptual Art Between Art Worlds (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016).