Art After Conceptual Art (Generali Foundation Collection) [Paperback]

Alexander Alberro (Editor), Sabeth Buchmann (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Generali Foundation Collection | Publication Date: October 27, 2006

Art After Conceptual Art tracks the various legacies of conceptualist practice over the past three decades. This collection of essays by art historians from Europe and the Americas introduces and develops the idea that conceptual art generated several different, and even contradictory, forms of art practice. Some of these contested commonplace assumptions of what art is; others served to buttress those assumptions. The bulk of the volume features newly written and highly innovative essays challenging standard interpretations of the legacy of conceptualism and discussing the influence of conceptualism's varied practices on art since the 1970s. The essays explore topics as diverse as the interrelationships between conceptualism and institutional critique, neoexpressionist painting and conceptualist paradigms, conceptual art's often-ignored complicity with design and commodity culture, the specific forms of identity politics taken up by the reception of conceptual art, and conceptualism's North/South and East/West dynamics. A few texts that continue to be crucial for critical debates within the fields of conceptual and postconceptual art practice, history, and theory have been reprinted in order to convey the vibrant and ongoing discussion on the status of art after conceptual art. Taken together, the essays will inspire an exploration of the relationship between postconceptualist practices and the beginnings of contemporary art.Distributed for the Generali Foundation, Vienna

Editorial Reviews

Review

"The pointed differences of opinion and radical departures from established theory considered here instead offer a fresh perspective on the implication of working in a conceptual mode in the global arena of the 21st century. This is an important prompt to a developing discussion." Canadian Art

About the Author

Well-known art historians from Europe and the Americas discuss the influence of conceptualism on art since the 1970s.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: The MIT Press (October 27, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0262511959
• ISBN-13: 978-0262511957
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #968,333 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Alexander Alberro is the Virginia Bloedel Wright Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Barnard College and Columbia University in New York City.