Conceptual ArtWhat 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. |
Contents
Introduction What is Conceptual Art? 4 | |
AntiArt Gestures in Early Modernism | |
The Postwar Period | |
Copyright | |
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abstract aesthetic American Art & Language art object art world Arte Povera Artists Using Words artwork asked beautiful became become began body Brillo Bruce Nauman Buren canvas catalogue chair chapter colour Conceptual art Conceptual artists consciousness critical critique culture Dada Dadaist Decline or Diaspora dematerialization Diaspora of Conceptual Dibbets Douglas Huebler drawings Duchamp and Dada early everyday exhibition film Fluxus Francis Picabia gallery Haacke Huelsenbeck idea installed Institutional Contexts John Baldessari Joseph Kosuth Klein Kounellis Lettriste LeWitt LIVE look magazine Manzoni Marcel Broodthaers Marcel Duchamp material meaning Mel Bochner Minimalism Modernism museum painter Paolini Paris philosopher photographs piece placed Political and Institutional Private collection question radical Rauschenberg readymade Robert Smithson Ruthenbeck sculpture seen Siegelaub Situationist social space studio Surrealism things Toroni traditional Untitled Varieties of Conceptual Victor Burgin Vietnam viewer visual wall wanted York