Rewriting Conceptual Art
Jon Bird, Michael NewmanInvestigating and documenting the histories, theories and forms of Conceptual Art, this book shows that Conceptual Art was a broad movement encompassing a range of artistic tendencies.
With essays by Alex Alberro, Stephen Bann, Jon Bird, David Campany, Helen Molesworth, Michael Newman, Peter Osborne, Birgit Pelzer, Desa Philipagesi, Anne Rorimer, Peter Wollen and William Wood.
An international movement that followed specific geographical-cultural patterns, Conceptual Art built on the legacy of Marcel Duchamp, redefining the institutional and social relationships among production, work and audience in ways which have comprehensively transformed the nature of the art object and forms of artistic practice, both historically and in the present.
Investigating and documenting the histories, theories and forms of Conceptual Art, this timely book, including both established writers and a new generation of art historians, shows that Conceptual Art was a broad movement encompassing a range of artistic tendencies. This is the most stimulating account of the movement to date, arguing forcefully for its vitality and potential as well as examining its influence on art today.
Investigating and documenting the histories, theories and forms of Conceptual Art, this book shows that Conceptual Art was a broad movement encompassing a range of artistic tendencies.
With essays by Alex Alberro, Stephen Bann, Jon Bird, David Campany, Helen Molesworth, Michael Newman, Peter Osborne, Birgit Pelzer, Desa Philipagesi, Anne Rorimer, Peter Wollen and William Wood.
An international movement that followed specific geographical-cultural patterns, Conceptual Art built on the legacy of Marcel Duchamp, redefining the institutional and social relationships among production, work and audience in ways which have comprehensively transformed the nature of the art object and forms of artistic practice, both historically and in the present.
Investigating and documenting the histories, theories and forms of Conceptual Art, this timely book, including both established writers and a new generation of art historians, shows that Conceptual Art was a broad movement encompassing a range of artistic tendencies. This is the most stimulating account of the movement to date, arguing forcefully for its vitality and potential as well as examining its influence on art today.
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Rewriting Conceptual Art is a valuable contribution to knowledge about some recent art and artists, and constructs along the way a useful history of the post-1960s art world.
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The book is exemplary, not least for combining important new research with critical insights into both the reception and subsequent impact of Conceptualism in its diverse manifestations.
'Tate Magazine
Notes on the Editors and Contributors
Introduction – Michael Newman and Jon Bird
1. Siting the Page: Exhibiting Works in Publications – Some Examples of Conceptual Art in the USA – Anne Rorimer
2. Mappings: Situationists and/or Conceptualists – Peter Wollen
4. Still You Ask for More: Demand, Display and 'The New Art' – William Wood
5. Minding the Body: Robert Morris's 1971 Tate Gallery Retrospective – Jon Bird
6. Cleaning Up in the 1970s: the Work of Judy Chicago, Mary Kelly and Mierle Laderman Ukeles – Helen Molesworth
7. Conceptual Art History or, A Home for Homes for America – David Campany
8. A Media Art: Conceptualism in Latin America in the 1960s – Alex Alberro
9. Matter of Words: Translations in East European Conceptualism – Desa Philippi
10. Giulio Paolini – Stephen Bann
11. Marcel Broodthaers: The Place of the Subject – Birgit Pelzer
12. After Conceptual Art: Joe Scanlan's Nesting Bookcases, Duchamp, Design and the Impossibility of Disappearing – Michael Newman
References
Select Bibliography
Photographic Acknowledgements
Index
Jon Bird (Anthology Editor)
Jon Bird is Professor of Art and Critical Theory at Middlesex University and a tutor in the Theory Department at the Jan van Eyck Acadamie, Maastricht. He has edited Rewriting Conceptual Art (1999) and Otherworlds: The Art of Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith (2003), both published by Reaktion. He is the author of the critical monograph Leon Golub: Echoes of the Real (Reaktion, 2nd edition 2011).
Michael Newman (Anthology Editor)
Michael Newman is Senior Lecturer at Central St Martins School of Art, London.
