Photography After Conceptual Art
Margaret Iversen editor Diarmuid Costello editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Published:22nd Oct '10
Should be back in stock very soon
Photography After Conceptual Art presents a series of original essays that address substantive theoretical, historical, and aesthetic issues raised by post-1960s photography as a mainstream artistic medium
- Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2011
- Appeals to people interested in artist's use of photography and in contemporary art
- Tracks the efflorescence of photography as one of the most important mediums for contemporary art
- Explores the relation between recent art, theory and aesthetics, for which photography serves as an important test case
- Includes a number of the essays with previously unpublished photographs
- Artists discussed include Ed Ruscha, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Douglas Huebler, Mel Bochner, Sherrie Levine, Roni Horn, Thomas Demand, and Jeff Wall
"This volume is the product of both a large-scale research grant and a conference ... All the same, this book could be of interest to those teaching and studying photography in contemporary art." (International Journal of Education through Art, 2011)
"This volume is indispensable for theorists and historians of photography, as well as those concerned with post-1960s contemporary visual culture. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." (Choice, 1 May 2011)
ISBN: 9781444333602
Dimensions: 248mm x 173mm x 12mm
Weight: 422g
208 pages