CiNii Books - Essays on Art & language

This book deals with the recent theory and practice of art, and with the problems of modern art history and criticism. It addresses both the conceptual relations between art and language, and the different phases and concerns of the Art and Language group of the last 25 years. The essays include a discussion on competing views of modernism in art, a consideration of the Conceptual Art movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and an analysis of the artist's studio as a genre and studies of individual paintings.

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A kind of context
conceptual art and the suppression of the beholder
indexes and other figures
the conditions of problems
on "A Portrait of V.I.Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock"
"seeing" and "describing" - the artist's studio
on the surface painting
reading the museum
unit cure, unit ground
on pictures and paintings
"Hostages" 1 - painting as a cure
"Hostages" 2 - some other sense.

Volume: pbk ISBN 9780631178170

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This book deals with the recent theory and practice of art, and with the problems of modern art history and criticism. It addresses both the conceptual relations between art and language, and the different phases and concerns of the Art and Language group of the last 25 years. The essays include a discussion on competing views of modernism in art, a consideration of the Conceptual Art movement of the 1960s and 1970s, an analysis of the artist's studio as a genre and studies of individual paintings.

Table of Contents

A kind of context
conceptual art and the suppression of the beholder
indexes and other figures
the conditions of problems
on "A Portrait of V.I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock"
"seeing" and "describing" - the artist's studio
on the surface painting
reading the museum
unit cure, unit ground
on pictures and paintings
"Hostages" 1 - painting as a cure
"Hostages" 2 - some other sense.

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