BIBLIOGRAPHY - Charles Simonds

Selected BIBLIOGRAPHY

Abadie, Daniel

“Les constructions de l’esprit,” Charles Simonds, Paris, France, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, 1994, pp. 13-17

“Simonds: Life Built to Dream Dimensions,” Charles Simonds, Chicago, USA, Museum of Contemporary Art, 1981, pp. 31-34

Alessandrini, Christopher

“The Enchanted Worlds of Charles Simonds," Sotheby's, Oct 9, 2025”

Anderson, Maxwell

American Visionaries: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2001).

Danto, Arthur

"Charles Simonds and the Versatility of Clay" Mental Earth, Growths and Smears 2011, Knoedler Gallery New York.

Anfam, David

“Simonds’s Domain: Fragments and Secrets of Time,” IVAM, 2003, pp. 50-74

Apel, Friedmar

"Der Baumeister derTraume: Wirklichkeit und Gedankenspiel bei Charles Simonds," Sprache im technischen Zeitalter 6 (July 1978).

"Charles Simonds' dynamische Ordnungen/Charles Simonds' Dynamic Order," Daidalos 7 (1983).

Arnason, H. Harvard

History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography. 3rd ed.(Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall and New York: Abrams, 1986).

Beardsley, John

Probing the Earth: Contemporary Land Projects, Hirshhorn Museum, 1977, pp. 76-79.

"Robert Smithson and the Dialectical Landscape," Arts Magazine 52, no. 9 (May 1978).

"Charles Simonds: Extending the Metaphor," Art lnternational22, no. 9 (February 1979).

“On the Loose with the Little People: A Geography of Simonds’s Art,” Charles Simonds, Chicago, USA, Museum of Contemporary Art, 1981, pp. 26-30.

Art in Public Places: A Survey of Community-Sponsored Projects Supported by the National Endowment for the Arts (Washington, D.C.: Partners for Livable Places, 1981).

Earthworks and Beyond: Contemporary Art in the Landscape (New York: Abbeville Press, 1984).

“The Dumbarton Oaks Project” Landscapebodydwelling, Charles Simonds at Dumbarton Oaks. Harvard University Press 2009

"Charles Simonds: Inhabiting Clay," American Ceramics 11, no. 3 (October-December 1994).

"Hybrid Dreams," Art in America 83, no. 3 (March 1995).

“Charles Simonds: The Dumbarton Oaks Project,” Landscapebodydwelling, 2011, pp. 1-15

Castle, Ted

"Art in its Place," Geo 4, no. 9 (September 1972).

"Charles Simonds: The New Adam," Art in America 71, no. 2 (February 1983).

Celant, Germano

"Charles Simonds: Little People," Casabella 411 (March 1976).

“Charles Simonds’ Anthropomorphism,” Charles Simonds, Paris, France, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, 1994, 18-27.

"A Nomad in the City", Landscapebodydwelling, 2011, pp. 42-57

The American Tornado: Art in Power 1949-2008 (Milan: Skira, 2008).

Cork, Richard

"Little People Live Here," The Evening Standard (London), May 28, 1980.

Deak, Edit

"Vernacular Myth," Art-Rite 6 (Summer 1974).

Deecke, Thomas

‘Die Ruinenlandschaften Charles Simonds, Architektonische Phantasien’, in KUNSTmagazin, 18. Jg.Nr. 2, 1978

de Baranano, Kosme

Simonds: poetic territories Catalogue Charles Simonds Exhibition IVAM Valencia Spain 2003

de Baranano, Kosme &
Pilar Escanero eds.

Support/Surface El Paisaje En La Praxis Artistica Contemporanea Natura Naturans, 2012.

Diamonstein, Barbaralee ed.

Artists and Architects Collaboration.The Centennial Project of the Architectural League With essays by Vincent Scully, Paul Goldberger,Stephen Prokopoff, Jonathan Barnett, and Jane Livingston 1981

Dixon, David.

"The Little People Don’t Care,” Brooklyn Rail, September 2025

Pelta-Feldman, Jules

Lost Worlds Artforum. Vol.62, no 1, September 2023.

Jules Pelta Feldman (2024) The Built and the Grown: Charles Simonds’s Memorial to Stanley Tankel at Gateway, Art Journal, 83:4, 102-121, 2004.

Fitzgerald, Farrar

“Nature Versus Culture: Lower Manhattan Land Art by Charles Simonds, Walter De Maria, and Alan Sonfist.” Master’s Thesis, City College of New York, May, 2017

Haaften-Schick, Lauren Van
and Charles Simonds

“To Offer/To Exchange,” Performance Research, November 29, 2018

Herrera, Hayden

"Manhattan Seven" Art in America 65, no. 4 (July-August 1977).

Hess, Thomas B.

"This and That Side of Paradise," New York Magazine, November 22, 1976.

Hohmeyer, Jürgen

"Für kleine Leute," Der Spiegel (Hamburg), November 21, 1977.

Hordych, Barbara.

Süddeutsche Zeitung, Number 157, July 11, 2017.

Huser, France

"De New York à Mémilmontant," Le Nouvel Observateur (Paris), November 24, 1975.

"Charles Simonds: Le biltisseur de reves," Le Nouvel Observateur (Paris),January 12-18, 1995.

Joachimides &
Rosenthal, eds.

American Art in the 20th Century (Munich: Prestel, 1993).

Jochimsen, Margarethe

Kunst als sozialer Proceß," Kunstforum International 27 (March 1978).

Jonas, Gerald

"The Talk of the Town: The Little People," The New Yorker, November 22, 1976.

Kahn, Robert

"City Secrets: New York City, September 1, 2002

Kramer, Hilton

"An Artist Emerging from the 60s Counterculture," The New YorkTimes, December 13, 1981.

Kuspit, Donald

Is Was, Joseph Helman Gallery, New York.

Lange-Berndt, Petra.

"Clay as Transformer" 2017, "Dwelling Munich 2017" Catalogue of exhibition at Kunstraum Munich and the Kulturreferat der Landhauptstadt Munchen.
German text available here

Leenhardt, Jacques

L'urbanisme parallele de Charles Simonds," La Gazette de Lausanne, January 31, 1976.

Leveque &
Hugo Verlomme

"Une reflexion sur un avenir possible: Charles Simonds," Les Nouvelles litteraires (Paris). November 24-30, 1975.

Linker, Kate

"Charles Simonds' Emblematic Architecture," Artforum 17, no. 7 (March 1979).

Lippard, Lucy R.

Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory (New York: Pantheon Books, 1983).

Lippard, Lucy R. &
Charles Simonds

Cracking Bruchig Werden(Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, 1979).

Lyon, Christopher

"Charles Simonds: A Profile," Images and Issues 2, no. 4 (Spring 1982).

“Little People Orphaned Once More, Charles Simonds at Knoedler.” Artcritical December 10, 2011

"BOMB Magazine- Charles Simonds: Interview by Christopher Lyon, Stephanie Weber & Veronika Vogler" Lyon, Christopher. Weber, Stephanie. Vogler, Veronika. Bomb Magazine, October 2nd, 2014

At the Cuff of Time: Creative Mythology in the 1970s Art of Charles Simonds, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, April 2015

McConathy, Dale

"KeepingTime: Some Notes on Reinhardt, Smithson and Simonds," Artscanada 32, nos. 198-199 (June 1975).

Metken, Gunter

Spurensicherung: Kunst als Anthropologie und Selbsterforschung; Fiktive Wissenschaften in der heutigen Kunst (Cologne: DuMontVerlag, 1977).

Meyer, Franz

"Utopie in der Kunst-Kunst als Utopie:" In Utopien-Die Moglichkeit des Unmoglichen, edited by Jacqueline Baumann, Rosmarie Zimmermann and Hans-Jurg Braun. Zurcher Hochschulforum 9 (Zurich: Verlag der Fachvereine, 1987).

Molderings, Herbert

"Art as Memory" Essay in the 1978 exhibition catalog for Floating Cities and other Architectures. Westfalischer Kunstverein, Munster, Germany; Bonner Kunstverein, Germany.

Charles Simonds, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, April 2015

Neff, John Hallmark

"Charles Simonds's Engendered Places: Towards a Biology of Architecture,"

Parodi, Paola

"Charles Simonds" Unpublished Article.

Patton, Phil

"The Lost Worlds of the 'Little People'", Artnews 82, no. 2 (February 1983).

Pillsbury, Joanne

Site report : Charles Simonds in situ in the Dumbarton Oaks Museum Landscapebodydwelling : Charles Simonds at Dumbarton Oaks, Catalog, 2011.

Pohlen, Annelie

"Interview mit Charles Simonds," Heute Kunst!Flash Art 24 (January-February 1979).

Princenthal, Nancy

"Charles Simonds" Art in america review, February 15, 2012.

Reynolds, Ann

"Dwelling as World" Landscapebodydwelling : Charles Simonds at Dumbarton Oaks, Catalog, 2011.

Ruhrberg, Karl

Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert. Das Museum Ludwig, Koln (Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta-Verlag, 1986).

Sandler, Irving

“Art and Community: Dwelling Munich" Charles Simonds with Irving Sandler. Art in Conversation Brooklyn Rail July /August 2018.

Salomon, Xavier

“Charles Simonds's Dwellings” Frick Madison, Winter/Spring 2022.

Saulnier, Emmanuel

"Des lutins dans Ia ville,"Liberation (Paris), December 9, 1975.

Schneider, Pierre

"Les Lilliputiens de Simonds," L'Express (Paris), December 8-14, 1975.

Schnierle, Barbara

"Traumlocher undTraditionen," Tip Magazin 10 (1979).

Schweinerbraden, Jurgen

Wohnstatten fur Kleine Leute 1978" Text read at the opening of Charles Simonds' exhibition at the illegal Jurgen Schweinerbraden Gallery in East Berlin.

Selz, Peter

Art in Our Times, A Pictorial History 1890-1980 (NewYork: Abrams, 1981).

Semin, Didier

"Entretien avec Charles Simonds," Beaux Arts 39 (October 1986).

Simonds, Charles

"Miniature Dwellings," On Site 4 (1973).

"Microcosm to Macrocosm/Fantasy World to Real World" (includes conversation with Lucy R. Lippard), Artforum 12, no. 6 (February 1974).

Letter to the Editor, Artforum 12, no. 9 (May 1974).

Art Cahier no. 2 (Paris: SMI, 1975).

Three Peoples (Genoa: Samanedizione, 1975).
Also included in the following publications: A. Sky and M. Stone Unbuilt America (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976);
Alan Sondheim. Individuals: Post-Movement Art in America (New York: Dutton, 1977);
"Drei Volker," Kunstmagazin 2 (1978);
Friedmar Apel. "Der Baumeister derTraume: Wirklichkeit und Gedankenspiel bei Charles Simonds," Sprache im Technischen Zeitalter6 (July 1978);
Schwebende Stadte und andereArchitekturen/ Floating Cities and Other Architectures, Westfalischer Kunstverein, Munster (1978);
Charles Simonds, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1981);
NACA Journal1 (1992).

Statement, Artforum 18, no. 5 (January 1980).

"Working in the Streets of Shanghai and Guilin," Artforum 18, no. 10 (Summer 1980).

Statement, House Plants and Rocks, Leo Castelli Gallery, NewYork (1984).

"Earth and Sanity/Terre et Sante," International Journal of Art Therapy 1 (1997).

Cabinet of Curiosities", Landscapebodydwelling, Charles Simonds at Dumbarton Oaks. Harvard University Press 2009

"I WAS", 2017.

"Three Peoples: Where My Thoughts Come From ", 2022.

Sky, Alison &
Michelle Stone

Unbuilt America: Forgotten Architecture in the United States from Thomas Jefferson to the Space Age; A Site Book (NewYork: McGraw-Hill, 1976).

Soboleva, Ksenia M.

"A god-awful small affair: Queering Charles Simonds," Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, April 2016.
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Sondheim, Alan ed.

Individuals: Post-Movement Art in America (New York: Dutton, 1977).

Spies, Werner

“Geisterstädte des Unbewussten, Die Gegenwelten von Charles Simonds.” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Number 30, February 4, 1995

Stevens, Mark

"The Dizzy Decade," Newsweek, March 26, 1979.

Volz, Scott

Between Here and There:The Ambiguous Ecologies of Charles Simonds Master’s Thesis. Stony Brook, December 1, 2014

Wolfin, Marie-Claude

"Une Mystique Sexuelle," Info Artitudes 3 (January 8-14, 1975).

Weber, Stephanie.

" Charles Simonds’s Absence." Bomb Magazine. Artists in Conversation. April 24, 2013

"Stephanie Weber in Conversation With Charles Simonds." Published in “Dwelling Munich” catalogue by Kunstraum Munich, Kunst im offentlichen Raum- ein Programm des Kulturreferats der Landshaupstadt Munchen and Lenbachhaus, München 2017
German text available here

Windt, Rosa

Muttererde. Heimat im Material Kunstforum International, vol. 291, 2023.