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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Godfrey, Tony. Conceptual art. London : Phaidon, 1998 (OCoLC)605048502 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Tony Godfrey |
| ISBN: | 0714833886 9780714833880 |
| OCLC Number: | 39676995 |
| Description: | 447 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 22 cm. |
| 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. |
| Series Title: | Art & ideas. |
| Responsibility: | Tony Godfrey. |
Abstract:
Featuring the work of American and European artists, this book traces the history of conceptual art from its origins in the Dada movement through to its current practitioners. It offers an accessible explanation of the phenomenon rooted in a social context. Aimed at A level and undergraduate students, as well as the general reader.
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'more than just a compilation of sources, documents, and images - Osborne offers an original, challenging, reinterpretation of Conceptual Art - a solid contribution to the burgeoning re-examination of Conceptual Art.' Barry Schwabsky, BookForum, Winter 2002 'authoritative' Christie's Books, Summer 2002 Read more...
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