Art in America, Volume 69, Number 6, Summer 1981

In the article by Craig Owens entitled “Sects and Language”, pp. 11-13 & 15-16, Burroughs is mentioned as a participant in the Conference on Sex and Language at New York City’s Plaza Hotel, sponsored by the International Freudian Movement. A photo of Burroughs appears on page 13, noted as “Prophet of the Apocalypse”.

Published in New York City by Art in America, Inc. in Summer of 1981.

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 19810700AIAM.69.6

Selected Contents:

• Multiple reviews and exhibition listings
• Craig Owens: "Sects and Language" (on the Conference on Sex and Language)
• Ross Skoggard: "The 49th Parallel" (on the exhibition of Contemporary Canadian Art)
• Philip Hererra: "Alfred Jensen, 1903-1981" (memorial)
• Michael Sgan-Cohen: "Theater Design: Kiesler Onstage and Off" (on Frederick Kiesler)
• Abigail Solomon-Godeau: "Photography: W. Eugene Smith and the Humanist Icon" (essay)
• Roberta Smith: "Fresh Paint?" (review of London Royal Academy's "New Spirit in Painting" exhibition)
• John Bernard Meyers: "Interactions: A View of 'View'" (on View Magazine)
• Donald B. Kuspit:
• "Art, Criticism and Ideology" (critical essay)
• "Personal Signs: Jasper Johns" (essay)
• Carter Ratcliff:
• "Kelly's Spectrum of Experience" (on Ellsworth Kelly)
• "Odd Men Out" (essay on 'wild men')
• Martin Filler: "Harbingers: Ten Architects" (essay)

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Elizabeth C. Baker
• Managing Editor: Joan Simon
• Senior Editor: Nancy Marmer
• Copy Chief: Ted Mooney
• Associate Editors: Prudence Carlson, Craig Owens
• Editorial Assistants: Robert Fisher, Kathryn Howarth
• Designed: Alberto P. Gavasci
• Associate Designer: Madlyn W. Dickens
• Consultant: John Peter
• Contributing Editors: Donal B. Kuspit, Lucy Lippard, Sarah McFadden, Carter Ratcliff, Bryan Robertson, Irving Sandler, Peter Schjeldahl, Roberta Smith, Charles F. Stuckey
• Corresponding Editors: Franz Schulze, Peter Selz, David Tannous, Suzi Gablik, Michael Brenson, Milton Gendel
• Publisher: Paul Shanley
• Production: Mary Jontry