Photography After Conceptual Art

by Costello, Diarmuid; Iversen, Margaret

• ISBN13: 9781444333602
• ISBN10: 1444333607
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-08
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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 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and aesthetics, for which photography serves as an important test case Includes a number of the essays with previously unpublished photographs Artists discussed include Ed Ruscha, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Douglas Huebler, Mel Bochner, Sherrie Levine, Roni Horn, Thomas Demand, and Jeff Wall

Author Biography

Diarmuid Costello is Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick and Chair of the British Society of Aesthetics. He co-edited (with Dominic Willsdon) The Life and Death of Images: Ethics and Aesthetics (2008), and (with Jonathan Vickery) Art: Key Contemporary Thinkers (2007). His articles have appeared in British Journal of Aesthetics, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Critical Inquiry, Rivista di Estetica, and Angelaki. On Photography is forthcoming. Margaret Iversen is Professor of Art History and Theory, University of Essex. Her books include: Beyond Pleasure: Freud, Lacon, Barthes (2007); Alois Riegl: Art History and Theory (1993); Mary Kelly, co-authored with Douglas Crimp and Homi Bhabha (1997); and Chance (2010). Writing Art History, co-authored with Stephen Melville, is forthcoming.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	p. vi
Introduction: Photography after conceptual art	p. 1
Auto-maticity: Ruscha and performative photography	p. 12
Ed Ruscha, Heidegger, and deadpan photography	p. 28
Subject, object, mimesis: The aesthetic world of the Bechers' photography	p. 50
Exit ghost: Douglas Huebler's face value	p. 70
Productive misunderstandings: Interpreting Mel Bochner's theory of photography	p. 86
Roni Horn's Icelandic encyclopedia	p. 108
Thomas Demand, Jeff Wall and Sherrie Levine: Deforming 'Pictures'	p. 130
Almost Merovingian: On Jeff Wall's relation to nearly everything	p. 153
Morning cleaning: Jeff Wall and The Large Glass	p. 172
Index	p. 193
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