How Did Gregory Battcock Die?

Gregory Battcock (1937–1980) was an American art historian, art critic, and painter from New York City who wrote a series of Dutton paperbacks that anthologized critical writings on new art tendencies in contemporary art, such as Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Video Art, and Super Realism. His first anthology, The New Art, was published in 1966 and revised in 1973. Idea Art: A Critical Anthology, about conceptual art, was his most impactful book.