Notes on The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art

• outlines the difficulties surrounding authorship, categorizing, temporal discontinuity, transcience, and other criteria assessments
• what power does the artist have after the work of art has left his/her possession? and what rights does the new owner now have? especially considering the piece was manufactured by a third party
• what must make a work of art suitable for a replica?
• the emphasis on idea or concept makes explicit the possibility that the work of art will be synonymous with an object. Judd made it clear that he didn't want this in his work- his work was only an idea and that idea could theoretically be conveyed in an infinite amount of ways
• Antoni's Gnaw depends on repetition in the form of the cast copy for its continued existence.
• authorship is based on unity and stylistic consistency. presentation under an artist's name ensures that not only a range of different forms of expression will be read as works, but that heterogeneity within that series of works will be read as a decision that itself carries meaning as a play on the very idea of authorship as a form of unity or internal consistency.
• consider most museums as chronologically oriented and the possibility that one could walk through them backwards.
• decision-making in art involves each format, medium, context, content, appearance, and duration as a conscious choice.