Full Description
What is art? Must it be a unique, saleable luxury item? Can it be a concept that never takes material form? Or an idea for a work that can be repeated endlessly? Conceptual art favours a vivid engagement with such questions. It can take many forms: photographs, videos, posters, billboards, charts, plans and, in particular, language itself. Tony Godfrey has written the first ever clear, extensive, concise and informative account of this fascinating phenomenon.
Contents
Introduction - what is Conceptual Art?; early modernism - anti-art gestures; the post-war period - alternatives to painting; false, radical and obdurate - realities in the early sixties; who were the brain police? - six types of Conceptual Art; crises of authority - the dominance of Conceptual Art; the end? - the decline or diaspora of Conceptual Art; "Are you Boring or Are you Angry?" - artists using photography; the name on the door - artists using words since 1980; who are the style police? - Conceptual Art Today.
