Conceptual Art

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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...
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Overview

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.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780714833880
  • Publisher: Phaidon Press, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 11/28/1998
  • Series: Art and Ideas Series
  • Edition description: REV
  • Pages: 448
  • Sales rank: 644,755
  • Product dimensions: 6.25 (w) x 8.75 (h) x 1.12 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction: What is Conceptual Art? 4
1 Anti-Art Gestures in Early Modernism: Duchamp and Dada 17
2 The Postwar Period: Alternatives to Painting 53
3 False, Radical and Obdurate: Realities in the Early 1960s 83
4 The Dematerialized Object, Almost Eight Conceptual Artworks 121
5 Who Were the Brain Police?: Varieties of Conceptual Art 145
6 The Crisis of Authority: Political and Institutional Contexts 185
7 The End?: Decline or Diaspora of Conceptual Art? 239
8 Where Were They?: The Curious Case Of Women Conceptual Artists 279
9 Looking at Others: Artists Using Photography 299
10 What is Your Name?: Artists Using Words Since 1980 343
11 Who Are the Style Police?: Controversies and Contexts in Recent Art 377
Glossary 426
Brief Biographies 428
Key Dates 433
Map 436
Further Reading 438
Index 441
Acknowledgements 446
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