“I wrote a large paper on conceptual art to get my M.A. in art history at Utrecht University. The most important part, concerning my ideas on the relationship between conceptual art and nineteenth century l’art pour l’art theory, ariose the interest of some dutch art historians...In 1978 several people asked me again about the points I made in my paper and I decided to make a small Xerox edition for those who are interested, in order to make my ideas accessible for further investigation...”