Rewriting Conceptual Art

Michael Newman, Jon Bird, Jon Bird, Michael Newman

• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9781861890528
• eBook ISBN:
  9781861896797
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Art General

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.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• 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
• 3 Conceptual Art and/as Philosophy Peter Osborne
• 4 Still You Ask for More: Demand, Display and ‘The New Art’ William Wood
• 5 Minding the Body: Robert Morrisșs 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