Dan Graham is one of the most significant figures to emerge from the1960s moment of Conceptual art, with a practice that pioneered a range of art forms, modes, and ideas that are now fundamental to contemporary art. The thrust of hispractice has always pointed beyond: beyond the art object, beyond the studio, beyondthe medium, beyond the gallery, beyond the self. Beyond all these categories andinto the realm of the social, the public, the democratic, the mass produced, thearchitectural, the anarchic, the humorous. Graham's early work, Homes for America--aseries of snapshots of suburban New Jersey tract housing accompanied by shortparodic texts, made as a page layout for Arts magazine--announced a critical artgrounded in the everyday, and it merged the artist's interest in cultural commentarywith art's most advanced visual modes. His 1984 "video-essay" Rock MyReligion traced a continuum of separatism and collective ecstasy from the Americanreligious sect the Shakers to hard-core punk music. This volume, which accompanies amajor retrospective organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, offersthe first comprehensive survey of Graham's work. The book's design evokes magazineformat and style, after Graham's important conceptual work from the 1960s in thatmedium. Generously illustrated in color and black and white, Dan Graham: Beyondfeatures eight new essays, two new interviews with the artist, a section of reprintsof Graham's own writing, and an animated manga-style "life of Dan Graham"narrative. It examines Graham's entire body of work, which includes designs formagazine pages, drawing, photographs, film and video, and architectural models andpavilions.Essays Chrissie Iles on Graham's performance work - Bennett Simpsonon Graham's interest and works in rock music - Beatriz Colomina on Graham'sarchitectural pavilions - Rhea Anastas on Graham's early formation andshort-lived operation of the John Daniels Gallery - Mark von Schlegell onGraham's interest in science fiction - Mark Francis on Graham's PublicSpace/Two Audiences (1976) -Alexandra Midal on Graham's conceptual works formagazine pages and magazine design - Philippe Vergne on Graham's puppet operaDon't Trust Anyone Over Thirty (2004) - Kim Gordon interview with Graham ontheir collaborations and music - Rodney Graham interview with Graham on jokesand humor in art