Conceptual art : theory, myth, and practice /

Conceptual art consisted of a loose collection of related practices that emerged worldwide during the 1960s and 1970s. This collection of essays offers readers a wealth of new research on the earliest international exhibitions of Conceptual art; new interpretations of some of its most important prac...

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Other authors / contributors: Corris, Michael
Imprint: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Format: Book
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : An invisible college in an Anglo-American world / Michael Corris
  • The Formalist connection and originary myths of conceptual art / Frances Colpitt
  • Content, context, and conceptual art : Dan Graham's Schema (March 1966) / Alex Alberro
  • "Almost not photography" / Melanie Mariño
  • Soft talk/soft-tape : the early collaborations of Ian Burn and Mel Ramsden / Ann Stephen
  • The second degree : working drawings and other visible things on paper not necessarily meant to be viewed as art / James Meyer
  • When attitudes become form and the contest over conceptual art's history / Alison M. Green
  • Understanding information / Ken Allan
  • "The rotting sack of humanism" : Robert Morris and authorship / Richard J. Williams
  • Affluence, taste, and the brokering of knowledge : notes on the social context of early conceptual art / Robert Hobbs
  • Hanne Darboven : seriality and the time of solitude / Briony Fer
  • Art in the information age : technology and conceptual art / Edward A. Shanken
  • The crux of conceptualism : conceptual art, the idea of idea, and the information paradigm / Johanna Drucker
  • Conceptual work and conceptual waste / Blake Stimson
  • Conceptual art and imageless truth / John Roberts
  • Art & Language, New York, discusses its social relations in "The Lumpen-headache" / Christopher Gilbert
  • Ian Burn's conceptualism / Adrian Piper.