Conceptual Art: Theory, Myth, and Practice

by Michael Corris

Overview

Conceptual art consisted of a loose collection of related practices that emerged worldwide during the 1960s and 1970s. This collection of essays offers readers a wealth of new research on the earliest international exhibitions of Conceptual art; new interpretations of some of its most important practitioners; and a reconsideration of the relationship between Conceptual art and the intellectual and social context of the 1960s and 1970s. Of special note are the contributions that focus on the explicitly social and political aspirations of this influential avant-garde artistic practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521530873
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	12/15/2003
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	380
Product dimensions:	7.05(w) x 10.04(h) x 0.91(d)

About the Author

Michael Corris has exhibited in galleries and museums internationally since 1972 and is represented in public and private collections in North America and Europe. His writings on art and art theory have been published widely: in artist-run publications (Art-Language, The Fox, and Red-Herring), scholarly journals (Word and Image, Art Journal, and Art History), and the international art press (Artforum, Art+Text, and Art Monthly, among others). Currently, Dr Corris is the editor for a new series of monographs on art since the 1980s (forthcoming 2013), continues to work with colleagues on the editorial board of Transmission Annual (which he co-founded in 2008 with Jaspar Joseph-Lester and Sharon Kivland), and in 2014 will assume the post of book reviews editor for the College Art Association's contemporary art publication, Art Journal.

Table of Contents

Introduction: 'An Invisible College in an Anglo-American World'; Part I. Artists, Object, Spectator: 1. The formalist connection and originary myths of Conceptual art Frances Colpitt; 2. Content, context and conceptual art: Dan Graham's Schema Alex Aberro; 3. 'Almost not photography' Melanie Mariño; 4. Soft talk/soft tape: the early collaborations of Ian Burn and Mel Ramsden Ann Stephen; Part II. Display: 5. The second degree: working drawings and other visible things on paper not necessarily meant to be viewed as art James Meyer; 6. When Attitudes become Form and the contest over Conceptual art's history Alison Green; 7. Understanding Information Ken Allan; 8. 'The rotting sack of humanism': Robert Morris and authorship Richard J. Williams; Part III. Recoding Information, Knowledge, and Technology: 9. Affluence, taste and the brokering of knowledge: notes on the social context of early conceptual art Robert Hobbs; 10. Hanne Darboven: seriality and the time of solitude Briony Fer; 11. Art in the information age: technology and Conceptual art Edward A. Shanken; 12. The crux of conceptualism: Conceptual art, the Idea of idea and the information paradigm Johanna Drucker; Part IV. The Limit of the Social: 13. Conceptual work and conceptual waste Blake Stimson; 14. Conceptual art and imageless truth John Roberts; 15. New York discusses its social relations in 'The lumpen Headache' Chris Gilbert; 16. Ian Burn's conceptualism Adrian Piper.

Editorial Reviews

'… these contributions open up a welcome historiography of this period.' Art Monthly

'This detailed anthology is an expert recalibration of a theme thinly offered by recent publications. This anthology shows that the legacy of conceptual art remains a transfiguring subject for critics and, if so desired, becomes a profound interrogation for curators. Make it your guide.' Journal of Visual Culture

'… this is an incisive and scholarly contribution to the extant literature which … may well become a benchmark for serious study of the subject area.' Art History

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