Photography After Conceptual Art

Photography After Conceptual Art (Art History Special Issues)
by Diarmuid Costello, Margaret Iversen

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Date: 2010-11-16

ISBN-10: 1444333607

ISBN-13: 9781444333602

Language: English

Pages: 208
Description:
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Includes a number of the essays with previously unpublished photographs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, Bed and Hilla Becher, Douglas Huebler, Mel Bochner, Sherrie Levine, Roni Ho, Thomas Demand, and Jeff Wall