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Abstract
Each of the works considered in this paper focuses, in some way, upon the notion of context. Each articulates the crucial role of context in all creative and perceptual processes. The examples for analysis are taken from various media: music, literature and the visual arts (John Cage's Variations VI, Robert Irwin's Black Line Volume, Alvin Lucier's “I am sitting in a room,” Dan Graham's Scheme, and Hans Haacke's Seurat's “Les Poseuses"). These works, when taken together, seem to spiral outward, progressively expanding the very definition of context itself.