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merely unfortunate and accidental rather than essential and necessary, but
it also varies from the theorization of conceptual art’s institutionality offered
by critic and historian Benjamin Buchloh. Buchloh sees what he calls an
“aesthetics of administration,” clerk-like activities carried out in a rote and
often antiutopian manner, as key to conceptual art’s success in shutting down
modern art’s aspirations to transcendence, but at the same time contributing
to conceptualism’s collusion with bureaucratic and administered culture.
FIGURE 3.5. Cover of The Fox, 1975. Artist’s publication. Collection Stedelijk Museum
Schiedam, The Netherlands. Courtesy of Sholette Archive.