Introduction / Brian Wallis -- My works for magazine pages : 'a history of conceptual art' -- Information : conceptual art/magazines/the sixties. Eisenhower and the hippies ; Side effect/common drug ; Homes for America ; Schema (March 1966) ; Information ; Figurative ; Aspen : one proposal ; Income piece ; Subject matter ; Detumescence ; Dean Martin/entertainment as theater ; Past future/split attention -- Performance : punk rock/popular culture/theater. The end of liberalism ; Rock my religion ; Punk as propaganda ; Performer/audience/mirror ; New wave rock and the feminine ; Body press ; McLaren's children ; Performance and stage set ; The Lickerish Quartet ; Cinema ; Theater, cinema, power ; Public space/two audiences -- Architecture : art/design/urbanism. Gordon Matta-Clark ; Alteration of a suburban house ; Art as design ; Video design ; Art in relation to architecture/architecture in relation to art ; Video view of suburbia in an urban atrium ; The city as museum ; Two adjacent pavilions ; Corporate arcadias ; Pergola/conservatory ; Garden as theater as museum ; Children's pavilion. Essays discuss conceptual art, American popular culture, punk rock, motion pictures, architecture, and design. Dan Graham's artworks and critical writings have had an enormous influence on the course of contemporary art over the past quarter century. 'Rock My Religion' collects eighteen of Graham's essays from all periods of his work, beginning with his essays on minimalist artists such as Dan Flavin and Donald Judd, continuing with his writings on punk rock and popular culture, and concluding with his more recent considerations of architecture, urban space, and power. Alternating with these theoretical essays are descriptions and documentations of Graham's own works and installations - projects that trace his explorations in conceptual art, video, photography, architecture, and public sculpture, showing the integral connections between Graham's criticism and his own artwork. Although as an artist Graham has been associated with minimalism, conceptual art, and postmodernism, his writing does not conform to the stylistic and theoretical constraints of any specific movement. With sources and topics ranging from Ronald Reagan to the Sex Pistols, from Michel Foucault to Dean Martin, Graham's eclectic investigations into the complex cultural relationships between art production and social reality are always strikingly original. What makes these writings particularly interesting, though, is Graham's willingness to examine specific manifestations of popular culture (television, magazines, rock and roll, drugs) without regard to traditional qualitative judgements and without separating 'high' or 'low' culture from the processes of everyday life

Introduction / Brian Wallis -- My works for magazine pages : 'a history of conceptual art' -- Information : conceptual art/magazines/the sixties. Eisenhower and the hippies ; Side effect/common drug ; Homes for America ; Schema (March 1966) ; Information ; Figurative ; Aspen : one proposal ; Income piece ; Subject matter ; Detumescence ; Dean Martin/entertainment as theater ; Past future/split attention -- Performance : punk rock/popular culture/theater. The end of liberalism ; Rock my religion ; Punk as propaganda ; Performer/audience/mirror ; New wave rock and the feminine ; Body press ; McLaren's children ; Performance and stage set ; The Lickerish Quartet ; Cinema ; Theater, cinema, power ; Public space/two audiences -- Architecture : art/design/urbanism. Gordon Matta-Clark ; Alteration of a suburban house ; Art as design ; Video design ; Art in relation to architecture/architecture in relation to art ; Video view of suburbia in an urban atrium ; The city as museum ; Two adjacent pavilions ; Corporate arcadias ; Pergola/conservatory ; Garden as theater as museum ; Children's pavilion. Essays discuss conceptual art, American popular culture, punk rock, motion pictures, architecture, and design. Dan Graham's artworks and critical writings have had an enormous influence on the course of contemporary art over the past quarter century. 'Rock My Religion' collects eighteen of Graham's essays from all periods of his work, beginning with his essays on minimalist artists such as Dan Flavin and Donald Judd, continuing with his writings on punk rock and popular culture, and concluding with his more recent considerations of architecture, urban space, and power. Alternating with these theoretical essays are descriptions and documentations of Graham's own works and installations - projects that trace his explorations in conceptual art, video, photography, architecture, and public sculpture, showing the integral connections between Graham's criticism and his own artwork. Although as an artist Graham has been associated with minimalism, conceptual art, and postmodernism, his writing does not conform to the stylistic and theoretical constraints of any specific movement. With sources and topics ranging from Ronald Reagan to the Sex Pistols, from Michel Foucault to Dean Martin, Graham's eclectic investigations into the complex cultural relationships between art production and social reality are always strikingly original. What makes these writings particularly interesting, though, is Graham's willingness to examine specific manifestations of popular culture (television, magazines, rock and roll, drugs) without regard to traditional qualitative judgements and without separating 'high' or 'low' culture from the processes of everyday life