An essential sourcebook on conceptual art's famed champion reproducing his texts as scans to
immerse the reader in this deep archival dive "Better Read Than Dead" was the title that the
great American art dealer curator author and researcher Seth Siegelaub (1941-2013) had chosen
for an anthology of his own writings--one of the projects for which he never found the time
busy as he was running his global one-man operation. Here happily that project is now
fulfilled. The selected writings interviews extended bibliography and chronology gathered in
this Siegelaub sourcebook fill the historical gaps in the sprawling network of exhibitions
publications projects and collections that constitute Siegelaub's life's work. Here
Siegelaub's writings are reproduced as scans in order to convey the variety of the documents
and to give a sense of archival immersion. Interspersed with these "writings" are interviews
and talks several newly transcribed. The majority of interviews from 1969-1972 are reprinted
here.
