Artforum Index 1962-1968--Free on-line version

Our free, on-line version of the Artforum Index, 1962-1968, is up and running a few days early. We invite you to see it at http://www.mcgilvery.com

We published the original edition thirty-two years ago in 1970 as Artforum, 1962-1968: a cumulative index to the first six volumes. This revised, on-line version includes the never-indexed issues for September through December of 1968. Art Index began covering the magazine in January 1969 with volume 7, number 5.

The original printing master, set on an IBM Executive typewriter, was scanned using the latest character-recognition software. Even so, that process introduced many errors. We have corrected the vast majority of them, but there is little doubt that at least a few remain. Different equipment and browsers may produce slightly different displays. We welcome your comments, corrections, additions, and even--maybe especially--your complaints. Please visit http://www.mcgilvery.com and click on the tab marked "Indexes". Simple linking instructions are available both on the Home page and the opening Indexes page.

Although Artforum began as a parochial San Francisco Bay Area art magazine limited mainly to contemporary California art and artists, it quickly evolved into a publication with ambitions far beyond the mere reporting of events and trends; it became--intentionally--a decisive influence on many of those same events and trends. In the fifty-seven issues from 1962 through 1968 the reader will find crucial documents and articles on Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimal Art, and a host of competing movements and styles, along with important reappraisals of everything from Dada and Surrealism to naive art to Viennese Expressionism and the figure in art.

Within the next several months we intend to produce a similar free index to all of High Performance magazine (Nos. 1-76 + one special issue, February 1978 through Fall 1997). Meanwhile, we can supply back copies of most issues of both Artforum and High Performance, as well as many other art periodicals.