Conceptual art

Conceptual art / Tony Godfrey.

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: phot...

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Main Author: Godfrey, Tony
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Phaidon, 1998.
Series:Art & ideas.
Subjects:
Conceptual art.
Art, Modern > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: What is conceptual art?
  • Anti-art gestures in early modernism: Duchamp and Dada
  • The postwar period: alternatives to painting
  • False, radical and obdurate: realities in the early 1960s
  • The dematerialized object, almost: eight conceptual artworks
  • Who were the brain police?: varieties of conceptual art
  • The crisis of authority: political and institutional contexts
  • The end?: decline or diaspora of conceptual art?
  • Where were they?: the curious case of women conceptual artists
  • Looking at others: artists using photography
  • What is your name?: artists using words since 1980
  • Who are the style police?: controversies and contexts in recent art.

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