INSIDE THE WHITE CUBE

When these essays first appeared in Artforum in 1976, their impact w as immediate. They were discussed, annotated, cited, collected and tra nslated. O'Doherty was the first to explicitly confort a particular crisis in p ostwar art as he sought to examine the assum ptions on wich the modern commercial and museum gallery were based. This edition also includes The Gallery as a Gesture, a criticall y pi ece published ten years after the others.