Questioning Reality – Pictorial worlds today

30 June - 8 October 1972
Museum Fridericianum, Friedrichsplatz, Neue Galerie

Supporting Institution
documenta GmbH

Managing Director
Karl Fritz Heise, Walter Olbrich (Administrative Director)

Artistic Director
Harald Szeemann (General Secretary)

Working Group
Jean-Christoph Ammann, Arnold Bode, Harald Szeemann

Contributors
Ingolf Bauer (Picture Worlds and Piety), Karl-Oskar Blase (Videotheque), Bazon Brock (Audiovisual Foreword), François Burkhardt (Utopia), Linde Burkhardtz (Play and Reality), Johannes Cladders (The Reality of Art as Form of Art), Reiner Diederich (Political Propaganda), Konrad Fischer (Idea and Idea/Light), Richard Grübling (Political Propaganda), Sigurd Hermes (Film View), Hans Heinz Holz (Catalogue Foreword), Klaus Honnef (Idea and Idea/Light), Karl Heinz Krings (Audiovisual Foreword/Technology), Eberhard Roters (Trivial Realism – Trivial Emblems), Theodor Spoerri (Painting of the Mentally Ill), Pierre Versins (Science Fiction), Charles Wilp (Advertising), Kasper König (Mouse Museum)

Graphic Design
Karl-Oskar Blase

Poster (with ant motif)
Ed Ruscha

Technical Directors
Lorenz Dombois, Jacques Caumont

Press Officer
Klaus Ulrich Reinke

Secretariat
Gerald Just, Annette Allwardt, Ela Spornitz, Linda Weyer

Exhibit Pieces
1,056

All Artists / Male / Female
222 / 205 / 17

Visitors
230,000

Budget
3,480,000 DM

Catalogue
1 Ring Notebook Vol. 1: Materials;
Vol. 2: List of Exhibit Pieces
documenta GmbH / C. Bertelsmann Verlag
1 Ring Notebook: 20,000 copies: 65 DM

Catalogue Editors
Harald Szeemann, Marlis Grüterich, Katia von den Velden, Jennifer Gough-Cooper