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Conceptual art /

Contributor(s): Series: Themes and movementsPublication details: London ; New York : Phaidon, 2002.Description: 304 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cmISBN:
  • 0714839302
  • 9780714839301
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Works. Pre-history : 1950-1960 -- Instruction, performance, documentation -- Process, system, series -- Word and sign -- Appropriation, intervention, everyday -- Politics and ideology -- Institutional critique -- Afterwards -- Documents. Pre-history : 1950-1960 -- Instruction, performance, documentation -- Process, system, series -- Word and sign -- Appropriation, intervention, everyday -- Politics and ideology -- Institutional critique -- Afterwards.
Scope and content: This book is an authoritative re-examination of a major turning point in late twentieth-century art. Since the mid 1960s Conceptual art - an art that consists of ideas, written down, enacted or simply carried in your head - has directly challenged the very notion that a work of art is by definition an object of visual pleasure. Conceptual art is first and foremost an art of questions. As this book demonstrates, Conceptual art continues today to raise fundamental questions not only about the definition of art itself but about politics, the media and society. Conceptual art, since its zenith from 1966 to 1972, has influenced not only all subsequent art but made a major contribution to the history of ideas. It, in turn, drew much of its inspiration from the writings of thinkers ranging from the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein to the playwright Samuel Beckett. For the first time, excerpts from these key influential writings are included alongside the major original texts by artists, critics, curators and art historians. An international movement, Conceptual art encompasses not only North America and Western Europe but also South America, Eastern Europe, Russia, China and Japan. Its legacy is global, ranging from small local participatory projects to large-scale installations at major museums and biennales.
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Artists and writers include: Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Theodor W. Adorno, Akasegawa Genpei, Alexander Alberro, Eleanor Antin, Arakawa Aman, Art & Language, Art Workers Coalition, Artist Placement Group, Michael Asher, Terry Atkinson, John Baldessari, Michael Baldwin, Robert Barry, Rolad Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Samuel Beckett, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Oscar Bony, George Brecht, Marcel Broodthaers, Stanley Brouwn, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Jack Burnham, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Ian Burn, John Cage, Sophie Calle, Judy Chicago, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Lygia Clark, Michel Claura, James Coleman, Eduardo Costa, Hanne Darboven, Guy Deboro, Jan Dibbets, Braco Dimitrijevic, Willie Doherty, Johanna Drucker, Marcel Duchamp, Anton Ehrenzweig, Raul Escari, Hal Foster, Hamish Fulton, Robert Gober, Erving Goffman, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Nelson Goodman, Zbigniew Gostomski, Dan Graham, Grupo de Artistas de Vanguardia, Hans Haacke, Tibor Hajas, Margaret Harrison, Eva Hesse, Hi Red Center, Susan Hiller, John Hilliard, Jenny Holzer, Max Horkheimer, Douglas Huebler, Kay Hunt, Alfredo Jaar, Roberto Jacoby, Jasper Johns, Ilya Kabakov, Tadeusz Kantor, Allan Kaprow, On Kawara, Mary Kelly, Edward Kienholz, Yves Klein, Komar & Melamid, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozlov, Jardslaw Kozlowski, Barbara Kruger, George Kubler, Shigeko Kubota, Thomas S. Kuhn, John Latham, Louise Lawler, Sherrie Levine, Curt Lewin, Sol Lewitt, Lucy R. Lippard, Richard Long, Allan McCollum, George Maciunas, André Malraux, Piero Manzoni,Herbert Marcuse, Karl Marx, Gordon Matta-Clark, Matsuzawa Yutaka, Cilso Meireles, Ana Mendieta, Gustav Metzger, Miyajima Tatsuo, Robert Morris, Murakami Saburo, Bruce Nauman, N.E. Thing Co. (Iain & Ingrid Baxter), Michael Newman, Brian O'Doherty, Helio Oiticica, Yoko Ono, Roman Opalka, Nam June Paik, Rozsika Parker, Adrian Piper, Victor Pivovarov, Mel Ramsden, Robert Rauschenberg, Martha Rosler, Edward Ruscha, Ferdinand de Saussure, Carolee Schneemann, Richard Serra, Shimamoto Shozo, Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi, Shiraga Fujiko, Shiraga Kazuo, Seth Siegelaub, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Niele Toroni, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Jeff Wall, Andy Warhol, Lawrence Weiner, Hannah Wilke, Fred Wilson, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Krzystof Wodiczko, La Monte Young, Zhang Huan.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-299) and index.

Works. Pre-history : 1950-1960 -- Instruction, performance, documentation -- Process, system, series -- Word and sign -- Appropriation, intervention, everyday -- Politics and ideology -- Institutional critique -- Afterwards -- Documents. Pre-history : 1950-1960 -- Instruction, performance, documentation -- Process, system, series -- Word and sign -- Appropriation, intervention, everyday -- Politics and ideology -- Institutional critique -- Afterwards.

This book is an authoritative re-examination of a major turning point in late twentieth-century art. Since the mid 1960s Conceptual art - an art that consists of ideas, written down, enacted or simply carried in your head - has directly challenged the very notion that a work of art is by definition an object of visual pleasure. Conceptual art is first and foremost an art of questions. As this book demonstrates, Conceptual art continues today to raise fundamental questions not only about the definition of art itself but about politics, the media and society. Conceptual art, since its zenith from 1966 to 1972, has influenced not only all subsequent art but made a major contribution to the history of ideas. It, in turn, drew much of its inspiration from the writings of thinkers ranging from the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein to the playwright Samuel Beckett. For the first time, excerpts from these key influential writings are included alongside the major original texts by artists, critics, curators and art historians. An international movement, Conceptual art encompasses not only North America and Western Europe but also South America, Eastern Europe, Russia, China and Japan. Its legacy is global, ranging from small local participatory projects to large-scale installations at major museums and biennales.

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