As it is posited, the imperative of Transmission holds a conflictual deal with the art “milieu,” and corrupts the democratic goal ofmass diffusion. The work / object of art is a communicating object in itself. Against a problematic drift of art consumption, Sylvie Boulanger opposes the concept of consumation, that deals with experimentation, and thus with a shared authority between the distinct protagonists of the artistic dispositive. Artists publications of the 1960’s, reinforced by contemporary practices of numerical diffusion, unveil, from the artists’ side, a potential of transmission in their very formulation.