Selected Allan McCollum Texts
In downloadable PDF format
(listed alphabetically by author)

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  Allan McCollum Bio: PDF version
Microsoft Word version
Chronology of Projects, 1969-2006
ANASTAS, RHEA (2003)
Allan McCollum: The Kansas and Missouri Topographical Model Project

BELL, TIFFANY (1979)
Allan McCollum [review]

BOURRIAUD, NICOLAS (1988)
McCollum's Aura

BURTON, JOHANNA (2004)
Allan McCollum [review]

BUSKIRK, MARTHA (2003)
Context As Subject [excerpt]

CATEFORIS, DAVID (2003)
A Map of the Divide

COHEN, MARK DANIEL (2000)
Allan McCollum The Event: Petrified Lightning
from Central Florida (With Supplemental Didactics)
[review]


COOKE, LYNNE (1989)
Allan McCollum: The Art of Duplicitous Ingemination

COOKE, LYNNE (1989)
Allan McCollum: Excerpts from an Interview,
on the
Lost Objects project,at the Carnegie Museum of Art


DECTER, JOSHUA (1995)
Natural Copies at Weber Gallery [review]

DELLINGER, JADE (1998)
THE EVENT: Petrified Lightning from Central Florida
(with Supplemental Didactics): An Interview with Allan McCollum


ELGER, DIETMAR (1996)
Allan McCollum: from Artificial Surrogates to Natural Copies

ENRIGHT, ROBERT (2001)
No Things but in Ideas: An Interview with Allan McCollum

FOSTER, HAL (1986)
Subversive Signs [excerpt]

FRASER, ANDREA (1986)
Allan McCollum

FRASER, ANDREA (1988)
Individual Works: Allan McCollum

FRASER, ANDREA (1991)
May I Help You?

GASPARINA, JILL (2008)
L’art à une échelle de masse
Sur
The Shapes Project d’Allan McCollum [in French]


GINTZ, CLAUDE (1984)
Allan McCollum

GOLUB, ADRIENNE M. (1999)
Bolts from the Blue

GRAPHICSTUDIO (2004)
Each and Every One of You

HELFAND, JESSICA (2007)
The Illusion of Certainty (on The Shapes Project)

INSIDE THE STUDIO: ICI STUDIO TALK (2004)
Transcription excerpts from a 1991 talk

KALINA, RICHARD (1992)
Lost and Found

KASTNER, JEFFREY (1993)
Allan McCollum: Drawings

KRAUSS, ROSALIND (1996)
Formless: A User's Guide to Entropy [excerpt]

KYANDER, PONTUS (2001)
Allan McCollum: The New City Markers

LAWSON, THOMAS (1992)
Interview with Allan McCollum

LEVY, ELLEN K. (1996)
Repetition and the scientific model in art

LINKER, KATE (1984)
Louise Lawler / Allan McCollum
Ideal Settings: For Presentation and Display
[review]


MASHECK, JOSEPH (1985)
Allan McCollum's Perpetual Photos

McCOLLUM, ALLAN (2000)
The Small World Drawings

McCOLLUM, ALLAN (2006)
Allan McCollum Interviews Harrell Fletcher

McCOLLUM, ALLAN (2006)
The Shapes Project: Introduction

McCOLLUM, ALLAN (2007)
The Shapes Project: Explained to Children

MEINHARDT, JOHANNES (1994)
Painting as Empty Space: Allan McCollum's Subversion of the Last Painting

MENU, MICHEL (2000)
Coups de foudre: les fulgurites d'Allan McCollum [in French]

MITCHELL, W.J.T. (1998)
Excerpt from: The Last Dinosaur Book: Paleoart

MOLESWORTH, HELEN (1998)
Impossible Objects: Man-Made Fulgurites by Allan McCollum

MOLESWORTH, HELEN (2005)
Allan McCollum: The Perfect Vehicles and Over Ten Thousand Individual Works

NITTVE, LARS (1990)
Coda

OWENS, CRAIG (1983)
Repetition & Difference

PRINCENTHAL, NANCY (2007)
Shape Shifter

QUÉLOZ, CATHERINE (1996)
Interview with Allan McCollum

RICHARD, FRANCES (2001)
THE EVENT: Petrified Lightning from Central Florida (with Supplemental Didactics) [review]

ROBBINS, DA (1984)
Interview with Allan McCollum

RORIMER, ANNE (1989)
Self-Reference and Mass-Production in the Work of Allan McCollum 1969-1989

SHOTTENKIRK, DENA (1990)
Allan McCollum: Drawings [review]

SMITH, ROBERTA (1986)
Allan McCollum and Laurie Simmons, Actual Photos [review]

SMITH, ROBERTA (2004)
Allan McCollum: Perpetual Photos, Recognizable Image Drawings and Perfect Vehicles [review]

WATSON, GRAY (1985)
Interview with Allan McCollum

YAPELLI, TINA (2000)
SIGNS OF THE IMPERIAL VALLEY: Sand Spikes from Mount Signal
INTRODUCTION TO
THE SHAPES PROJECT
The SHAPES Project

PRESS RELEASE FOR EXHIBITION
AT FRIEDRICH PETZEL GALLERY,
NEW YORK CITY, SEPTEMBER 1 — OCTOBER 2, 2004:
PERPETUAL PHOTOS and THE KANSAS AND MISSOURI
TOPOGRAPHICAL MODEL DONATION PROJECT

Petzel Press Release

PRESS RELEASE FOR INSTALLATION
IN CENTRAL PARK,
NEW YORK CITY, SEPTEMBER 8 2004 — FEBRUARY, 2005:
THREE PERFECT VEHICLES
Public Art Fund Press Release

PRESS RELEASE FOR EXHIBITION
AT FRIEDRICH PETZEL GALLERY,
NEW YORK CITY, NOVEMBER, 2000: THE EVENT:
PETRIFIED LIGHTNING FROM CENTRAL FLORIDA
(WITH SUPPLEMENTARY DIDACTICS)

Petzel Press Release

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