Dissolve Into Comprehension: Writings and Interviews, 1964-2004 - Paperbackby Jack Burnham (Author), Melissa Ragain (Editor), Hans Haacke (Foreword by) Influential writings by the legendary art critic and theorist Jack Burnham a pioneer in new media systems aesthetics and an early advocate of conceptualism. Jack Burnham is one of the few critics and theorists alive today who can claim to have radically altered the way we think about works of art. Burnham's use of the term "system" (borrowed from theoretical biology) in his