Rewriting Conceptual Art

Author : Michael Newman,Jon Bird
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 1861890524

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Rewriting Conceptual Art by Michael Newman,Jon Bird Pdf

"An international movement that developed along separate but parallel lines in Europe and America during the 1970s, Conceptual Art grew out of the legacy of Marcel Duchamp. Aiming to completely redefine the relationships between the production, definition and ownership of artworks and their various audiences, Conceptual artists rejected traditional formats, media and definitions. Instead they chose to address some of the key issues underlying modern life and art. Thse included the gulf between initial idea and finished work, the value assigned works of art in modern economies, the role of women and of feminine creativity in general, the politics of exhibition organization - in short, the ways art and the art world have been defined for centuries. Among the notable figures whose work is discussed in essays ranging from the evaluative to the theoretical are Judy Chicago, Robert Morris, Sol LeWitt, Marcel Broodthaers and Mary Kelly. The influence of Conceptual Art continues to be felt today in the work of such controversial young artists as Rachel Whiteread and Damien Hirst." - back cover.

Author : Peter Osborne
Publisher : Phaidon Press Limited
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002-06-24
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015055890522

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Conceptual Art by Peter Osborne Pdf

Conceptual art is an art of ideas which can be written, enacted or carried in your head, challenging the notion that a work of art is an object of visual pleasure. This text combines survey essays, key words, descriptions and an anthology of key texts.

Author : Alexander Alberro
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 0262511843

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Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity by Alexander Alberro Pdf

An examination of the origins and legacy of the conceptual art movement.

Author : Rosalind E. Krauss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0500282072

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"A Voyage on the North Sea" by Rosalind E. Krauss Pdf

Here, Rosalind Krauss position s the work of Marcel Broodthaers within this alternative narrative. Referring to the artist's films, books, graphic design and museum 'fictions', she presents Broodthaers as standing at, and thus standing for, the 'complex' of the sel-differing medium.

Author : Mike Sperlinger
Publisher : Rachmaninoff's
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 0954824016

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Afterthought by Mike Sperlinger Pdf

Author : Tony Godfrey
Publisher : Phaidon Press Limited
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998-11-06
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015046914514

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Conceptual Art by Tony Godfrey Pdf

What is art? Must it be a unique, saleable luxury item? Can it be a concept that never takes material form? Or an idea for a work that can be repeated endlessly? Conceptual art favours an engagement with such questions. As the variety of illustrations in this book shows, it can take many forms: photographs, videos, posters, billboards, charts, plans and, especially, language itself. Tony Godfrey has written a clear, lively and informative account of this fascinating phenomenon. He traces the origins of Conceptual art to Marcel Duchamp and the anti-art gestures of Dada, and then establishes links to those artists who emerged in the 1960s and early 1970s, whose work forms the heart of this study: Joseph Kosuth, Lawrence Weiner, Victor Burgin, Marcel Broodthaers and many others.

Author : Peter Goldie,Elisabeth Schellekens
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191536540

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Philosophy and Conceptual Art by Peter Goldie,Elisabeth Schellekens Pdf

The fourteen prominent analytic philosophers writing here engage with the cluster of philosophical questions raised by conceptual art. They address four broad questions: What kind of art is conceptual art? What follows from the fact that conceptual art does not aim to have aesthetic value? What knowledge or understanding can we gain from conceptual art? How ought we to appreciate conceptual art? Conceptual art, broadly understood by the contributors as beginning with Marcel Duchamp's ready-mades and as continuing beyond the 1970s to include some of today's contemporary art, is grounded in the notion that the artist's 'idea' is central to art, and, contrary to tradition, that the material work is by no means essential to the art as such. To use the words of the conceptual artist Sol LeWitt, 'In conceptual art the idea of the concept is the most important aspect of the work . . . and the execution is a perfunctory affair'. Given this so-called 'dematerialization' of the art object, the emphasis on cognitive value, and the frequent appeal to philosophy by many conceptual artists, there are many questions that are raised by conceptual art that should be of interest to analytic philosophers. Why, then, has so little work been done in this area? This volume is most probably the first collection of papers by analytic Anglo-American philosophers tackling these concerns head-on. Contributors Margaret Boden, Diarmuid Costello, Gregory Currie, David Davies, Peter Goldie, Robert Hopkins, Matthew Kieran, Peter Lamarque, Dominic McIver Lopes, Derek Matravers, Elisabeth Schellekens, Kathleen Stock, Carolyn Wilde, and the 'Art & Language' group.

Author : Robert C. Morgan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015032582127

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Conceptual Art by Robert C. Morgan Pdf

During the mid-1960s avant-garde artists in New York developed a multimedia art form devoted to ideas instead of objects. A history of the movement can be traced back to the minimal art and the earlier works of Marcel Duchamp, the black paintings of Ad Reinhardt and the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. By 1965, such artists as Mel Bochner and Joseph Kosuth were turning away from conventional art and viewing art as a concept, based primarily upon language.

Author : Peter Goldie,Elisabeth Schellekens
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199285556

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Philosophy and Conceptual Art by Peter Goldie,Elisabeth Schellekens Pdf

Fourteen prominent analytic philosophers engage with the philosophical puzzles raised by conceptual art: What kind of art is conceptual art? What follows from the fact that conceptual art does not aim to have aesthetic value? What knowledge or understanding can we gain from conceptual art? How ought we to appreciate conceptual art?

Author : Ursula Meyer
Publisher : Plume Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015006360575

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Conceptual Art by Ursula Meyer Pdf

The function of the critic and the function of the artist have been traditionally divided; the artist's concern was the production of the work and the critic's was its evaluation and interpretation. During the past several years a group of young artists evolved the idiom of Conceptual Art, which eliminated this division. Conceptual artists take over the role of the critic in terms of framing their own propositions, ideas, and concepts. "An essential aspect of Conceptual Art is its self-reference; often the artists define the intentions of their work as part of their art. Thus, many Conceptual artists advance propositions or investigations. It is in keeping, then, with Conceptual Art that it is best explained through itself, i.e., through the examination of Conceptual Art, rather than through any assumptions outside of itself. In this sense, this book is not a 'critical anthology' by a documentation of Conceptual Art and Statements."

Author : Eve Kalyva
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319450865

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Image and Text in Conceptual Art by Eve Kalyva Pdf

This book examines the use of image and text juxtapositions in conceptual art as a strategy for challenging several ideological and institutional demands placed on art. While conceptual art is generally identified by its use of language, this book makes clear exactly how language was used. In particular, it asks: How has the presence of language in a visual art context changed the ways art is talked about, theorised and produced? Image and Text in Conceptual Art demonstrates how artworks communicate in context and evaluates their critical potential. It discusses international case studies and draws resources from art history and theory, philosophy, discourse analysis, literary criticism and social semiotics. Engaging the critical and social dimensions of art, it proposes three methods of analysis that consider the work’s performative gesture, its logico-semantic relations and the rhetorical operations in the discursive creation of meaning. This book offers a comprehensive method of analysis that can be applied beyond conceptual art.

Author : Alexander Alberro,Sabeth Buchmann
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-27
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822035442805

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Art After Conceptual Art by Alexander Alberro,Sabeth Buchmann Pdf

Well-known art historians from Europe and the Americas discuss the influence of conceptualism on art since the 1970s. Art After Conceptual Art tracks the various legacies of conceptualist practice over the past three decades. This collection of essays by art historians from Europe and the Americas introduces and develops the idea that conceptual art generated several different, and even contradictory, forms of art practice. Some of these contested commonplace assumptions of what art is; others served to buttress those assumptions. The bulk of the volume features newly written and highly innovative essays challenging standard interpretations of the legacy of conceptualism and discussing the influence of conceptualism's varied practices on art since the 1970s. The essays explore topics as diverse as the interrelationships between conceptualism and institutional critique, neoexpressionist painting and conceptualist paradigms, conceptual art's often-ignored complicity with design and commodity culture, the specific forms of identity politics taken up by the reception of conceptual art, and conceptualism's North/South and East/West dynamics. A few texts that continue to be crucial for critical debates within the fields of conceptual and postconceptual art practice, history, and theory have been reprinted in order to convey the vibrant and ongoing discussion on the status of art after conceptual art. Taken together, the essays will inspire an exploration of the relationship between postconceptualist practices and the beginnings of contemporary art. Distributed for the Generali Foundation, Vienna.

Author : Paul Wood
Publisher : Delano Greenridge Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art, Modern
ISBN : 0929445163

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Conceptual Art by Paul Wood Pdf

Conceptual art set out to challenge two key assumptions normally associated with art -- the production of objects to look at and the act of contemplative looking itself. This accessible introduction explores the reasons why the new avant-garde that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s felt compelled to produce such critical work and examines the extent to which this movement may be regarded as the turning point between the modernist past of painting and the postmodernist present of the contemporary art world. The author traces the roots of Conceptual art in the anti-art practices of Marcel Duchamp, in Piero Manzoni's parodies of art world values and in the activities of the Fluxus group. He then examines the way Conceptual artists both raised fundamental questions about artistic Modernism and turned to address wider social and political issues. In addition to discussions of American artists such as Dan Graham and Joseph Kosuth and the English group Art & Language, the author reviews the work of feminist artists, including Mary Kelly, the work of European figures such as Joseph Beuys and Daniel Buren, and work made outside Western Europe and North America by artists including Ilya Kabakov, On Kawara and Cildo Meireles. Book jacket.

Author : Robert C. Morgan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1997-07-15
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015040621016

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Between Modernism and Conceptual Art by Robert C. Morgan Pdf

Art critic and artist Robert C. Morgan proposes that the Postmodernism popular in the 1980s failed to address, and even misrepresented and suppressed, conceptual art while marketing the notion of "Neo- conceptualism," a concept the author rejects as insignificant for advanced art. He argues instead that it is in the tension between Modernism and Conceptual Art that vitality in art was in the 1980s, and is still, found. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Christian Berger
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004404649

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Conceptualism and Materiality by Christian Berger Pdf

Conceptualism and Materiality. Matters of Art and Politics underscores the significance of materials and materiality within Conceptual art and conceptualism more broadly. It challenges the notion of conceptualism as an idea-centered, anti-materialist enterprise, and highlights the political implications thereof.