Issue edited by Philip Leider. Essays "Caro's Abstractness," by Michael Fried; "The Artist and Politics: A Symposium," by Carl Andre, Jo Baer, Walter Darby Bannard, Billy Al Bengston, Rosemarie Castoro, Rafael Ferrer, Don Judd, Irving Petlin, Ed Ruscha, Richard Serra, and Lawrence Weiner; "How I Spent my Summer Vacation," by Philip Leider; "Goodbye, Architecture," by Helmut C. Shulitz; "Sam Gilliam: Certain Attitudes," by LeGrace G. Benson; "Problems of Criticism VIII: Notes from the Underground," by Gabriel Laderman; "Notes on an Auction," by Walter Darby Bannard; "The Graphic Art of Jasper Johns, Part II," by Barbara Rose. Reviews by Robert Pincus-Witten, Jerrold Lanes, Joseph Masheck, Peter Plagens, Carl Belz, Martha Utterback, and Jerome Tarshis. Cover: Barnett Newman.