Rewriting Conceptual Art (Critical Views) - Softcover

Peter Osborne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1861890524 ISBN 13: 9781861890528

Publisher: Reaktion Books, 1999

Synopsis

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.

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About the Authors

Jon Bird is Professor of Art and Critical Theory at Middlesex University and a tutor in the Theory Department at the Jan van Eyck Acadamie, Maastricht. He has edited Rewriting Conceptual Art (1999) and Otherworlds: The Art of Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith (2003), both published by Reaktion. He is the author of the critical monograph Leon Golub: Echoes of the Real (Reaktion, 2nd edition 2011).

Michael Newman is Senior Lecturer at Central St Martins School of Art, London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1861890524
• ISBN 13: 9781861890528
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 251
• Editor: Jon Bird, Michael Newman