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Postscript

Writing After Conceptual Art

Andrea Andersson author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of Toronto Press

Published:2nd May '18

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One of the most important movements in twenty-first century literature is the emergence of conceptual writing. By knowingly drawing on the histories of art and literature, conceptual writing upended traditional categorical conventions.

Postscript is the first collection of writings on the subject of conceptual writing by a diverse field of scholars in the realms of art, literature, media, as well as the artists themselves. Using new and old technology, and textual and visual modes including appropriation, transcription, translation, redaction, and repetition, the contributors actively challenge the existing scholarship on conceptual art. Rather than segregating the work of visual artists from that of writers we are shown the ways in which conceptual art is, and remains, a mutually supportive interaction between the arts.

"Andersson’s collection is significant in so far as it is one of the first exhibitions or catalogues that begins to approach a definition of conceptual writing."

-- Louisa Lee * Art History

ISBN: 9781442649842

Dimensions: 262mm x 188mm x 41mm

Weight: 1120g

432 pages