von OPPENHEIM, Loeonie. The Political Arm.

(New York, NY): John Weber Gallery; St. Louis: Washington University Gallery of Art, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. 23cm by 23.3cm. 40 pages. Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition The Political Arm, held at the John Weber Gallery, New York, and organized by the Washington University Gallery of Art. Introduced with an essay by Joseph D. Ketner. Includes works and statements by Dennis Adams, Terry Allen, Carl Andre, Victor Burgin, Leon Golub, Hans Haacke, Jenny Holzer, Jasper Johns, Ronald Jones, Barbara Kruger, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Claes Oldenburg, Adrian Piper, Ad Reinhardt, Robert Smithson, Lawrence Weiner, and Krzysztof Wodiczko. One of the more significant surveys of politically engaged contemporary art examining the ways in which artists employed language, public intervention, institutional critique, and mass-media imagery to address questions of power, authority, nationalism, and social responsibility. A very good copy in stapled wrappers.