Cornelis Gijsbrechts

Canvas, 1670

Marcel Duchamp

Bottle Rack, 1917

René Magritte

La Trahison des Images ("Ceci n'est pas une pipe"), 1928-29 La Trahison des Images ("Ceci continue de ne pas être une pipe"), 1952	This is a piece of cheese, 1937 Les Deux Mystères, 1966	"Ceci n'est pas une pomme"

Jasper Johns

Flag, 1954-55 Target, 1969	Flag above white collage, 1955 Two Flags (in six parts), 1973	Three Flags, 1958 Target, 1974

"And in Jasper Johns' work – such as his 'Target' and 'Flag' paintings and his ale cans – one has a particularly good example of art existing as analytical proposition."

Joseph Kosuth: "Art after Philosophy, part II." Studio International, November 1969, p.161.

 

Gerhard Rühm

Bild ("Image"), 1955

 

Ben Vautier

mot ("word") 1958	des mots     des mots     des mots   ("words words words") 1958	ART 1958
("I am black and beautiful") 1959	rouge ("red") 1960	blanc        ("white") 1961
TRUTHS (1961) Truth exists and is beautiful in its essence, so I communicate and create it on canvas, in letters, or even orally, as thruths such as: 1 + 1 = 2.		price 50 $ 1964
NOUVEAU       ("new") 1965	Kunst       ("Art") 1965	noire       ("black") 1965
toile       ("canvas") 1965	1966       1966	("canvas 45 cm long") 1966
("not dated") 1966	1989	1990
("I wanted to abandon art but I made art out of it")	("art is a written word")	("the work is here identified with the message")

Billy Apple

1960

Tony Conrad

This piece is its name.       1961

Sol LeWitt

Red Square, White Letters, 1962. (Detail.)

On Kawara

SOMETHING From: "Nothing, Something, Everything", 1963.	LAT.31°25'N LONG.8°41'E "Location", 1965	JAN.15,1966 "This painting itself is January 15, 1966".
"Wednesday", 1978	"Wednesday", 1979	1980
1987	1988	1989

Björn Springfeldt: On Kawara. Continuity/Discontinuity, 1963-1979. Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 1980. (Includes a list of all "Date Paintings" (Today Series) with their subtitles from January 4, 1966 until December 20, 1979.)

Robert Indiana

Zero, 1964	Five, 1964	Eternal Hexagon 6, 1964
One, 1968	Heptagon 7, 1975	Octagon 8, 1975

Yannis Kounellis

Untitled (Paint), 1965

Joseph Kosuth

One and Three Chairs, 1965. [Photograph, chair, and entry for "chair" in etymological dictionary".]	One and Three Chairs, 1965. [Photograph, chair, and entry for "chair" in English-to-French translation dictionary.]	One and Three Chairs, 1965. [Photograph, chair, and entry for "chair" in English-to-German translation dictionary.]
Glass: One and three, 1965. [Photograph, glass pane, and dictionary definition of "glass".]	Wall: One and Five, 1965. [White plaster wall with photograph of the wall and entries for "white", "plaster" and "wall" in English-to-Latin translation dictionary.]
One and Three Saws, 1965. [Photograph, saw, and entry for "saw" in English-to-Italian translation dictionary.]		One and Three Pans, 1965.

Joseph Kosuth: Nine Paintings with Words as Art, 1966.

ENGLISH	NINE	GREY
CANVAS	RECTANGLE	WORDS
LETTERS	ART	PAINTING

Joseph Kosuth: "Titled (Art as Idea as Idea)".

Terry Atkinson and Michael Baldwin

"Map of an area of dimension 12''x12'' indicating 2.304 1/4" squares (Map of itself)", 1967.

"This 'map' has no correspondence with anything else but itself in terms of the spatial indices. It is 'the country itself'."

Michael Baldwin, Charles Harrison, Mel Ramsden: Art & Language in Practice. Vol. 1. Illustrated Handbook. Catalogue Fundaci— Antoni Tˆpies. Barcelona, 1999.

William Anastasi

READING A LINE ON A WALL Untitled, 1967. (Word Mural.)

"Six Sites" (Dwan Gallery, New York, April 1967). Six silk-screened paintings, one for each discrete wall of the gallery. Each painting depicts, on a scale of 90/100, the wall on which it hangs, showing in their appropriate positions the air-vents, the electrical outlets, the picture molding. "Papering", 1967. Performance version of "Six Sites": Installing wallpaper with the (slightly reduced) image of the wall.

Aaron Levy & Jean-Michel Rabaté (eds.): William Anastasi's Pataphysical Society: Jarry, Joyce, Duchamp and Cage. Philadelphia: Slought Books, 2005.

 

Mel Bochner: Measurements

Room, 1969	12" plate, 1994	Two 12" plates, 1994
12" X 3, 1997
9' (red), 2000
12" square (spin), 2000	12" transverse (spin), 2000	48" (black red)
+ 12" square (red rider), 2001	12" (side out), 2001	12" insert, 2001

Arman

Accumulation, 1973

Untitled (Rulers), 1998

Lawrence Weiner

A translation from one language to another /
Een vertaling van de ene taal naar de andere.
Spui, Amsterdam, 1996

Tautology in Software Art

Aqeel Ahmad: DHTML Chaos. (<5k DHTML, 2002.)

Tomaki Maeda: [ON|OFF]. (<5k JavaScript, 2002.)

Patrick May: Lightswitch, 2000. A self-documenting web-page.

Paul Poloskov: Square of Useless Information, 2002.

Rixta/3SC: SelfDisassembler, 2000. An assembly program which prints out its own code. Tautology here borders on Escher-style virtuoso self-reference.

Kris Steeves:  Guess the number of bytes (<5k, 2001)

Mikolaj Swidzinski: The Other Site. (<5k, 2002.)

 

Acknowledgment

Jochem van der Spek suggested one of the links.