This guide to conceptual art traces the issues and concerns of the first generation of artists involved in the foundation of the movement, with an essay exploring the historical basis of conceptual art, its relationship to the dominant aesthetics of the 1960s (that is, the moder…
Ideas, systems and processes - Includes discussion of pieces of work by various exponents of the movement.
"Sorted Books is many things at the same time: a series of sculptures, or photographs, or site-specific installations; a collection of short stories, or poems, or jokes; a work in which the 'found object' is subject alike to chance and the most painstaking choices; a delicate co…
"Sorted Books is many things at the same time: a series of sculptures, or photographs, or site-specific installations; a collection of short stories, or poems, or jokes; a work in which the 'found object' is subject alike to chance and the most painstaking choices; a delicate co…
Delighting in the look and feel of books, conceptual artist Nina Katchadourian's playful photographic series proves that books' covers-or more specifically, their spines-can speak volumes. Over the past two decades, Katchadourian has perused libraries across the globe, selecting…
"Sorted Books is many things at the same time: a series of sculptures, or photographs, or site-specific installations; a collection of short stories, or poems, or jokes; a work in which the 'found object' is subject alike to chance and the most painstaking choices; a delicate co…
This program explores the art of Christo and his attempts to sway sceptical authorities into providing permission for carrying out his project of surrounding eleven Biscayne Bay islands with 6.5 million square feet of bright pink fabric. His struggles to wrap the Pont-Neuf in Pa…
"Language has been a primary element in visual art since the 1960s - whether in the form of printed texts, painted signs, words on the wall or recorded speech. In 'Words to Be Looked At', Liz Kotz traces this practice to its beginnings, examining works of visual art, poetry, and…
ORLAN: A Hybrid Body of Artworks is the first academic study of ORLAN's pioneering art. The book covers her entire career in performance and a range of other art forms. This single accessible overview of ORLAN's practices describes and analyses her various innovative uses of the…