Photography After Conceptual A

Ed. by Diarmuid Costello and Margaret Iversen

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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Includes a number of the essays with previously unpublished photographs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, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Douglas Huebler, Mel Bochner, Sherrie Levine, Roni Horn, Thomas Demand, and Jeff Wall

Produktdetails

• Art History Special Issues
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9781444333602
• ISBN-10: 1444333607
• Artikelnr.: 29572861

Autorenporträt

Diarmuid Costello is Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick. 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.   Margaret Iversen is Professor of Art History and Theory, University of Essex. Her books include Beyond Pleasure: Freud, Lacan, Barthes (2007); Alois Riegl: Art History and Theory (1993); Mary Kelly, co-authored with Douglas Crimp and Homi Bhabha (1997). Writing Art History, co-authored with Stephen Melville, is forthcoming. Iversen and Costello are also Co-Directors of the AHRC research project "Aesthetics after Photography."

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on contributors vi
1 Introduction: Photography after conceptual art 1
Diarmuid Costello and Margaret Iversen
2 Auto-maticity: Ruscha and performative photography 12
Margaret Iversen
3 Ed Ruscha, Heidegger, and deadpan photography 28
Aron Vinegar
4 Subject, object, mimesis: The aesthetic world of the Bechers' photography
50
Sarah E. James
5 Exit ghost: Douglas Huebler's face value 70
Gordon Hughes
6 Productive misunderstandings: Interpreting Mel Bochner's theory of
photography 86
Luke Skrebowski
7 Roni Horn's Icelandic encyclopedia 108
Mark Godfrey
8 Thomas Demand, Jeff Wall and Sherrie Levine: Deforming 'Pictures' 130
Tamara Trodd
9 Almost Merovingian: On Jeff Wall's relation to nearly everything 153
Wolfgang Bruckle
10 Morning cleaning: Jeff Wall and The Large Glass 172
Christine Conley
Index 193

Rezensionen

"This volume is the product of both a large-scale research grant and a conference ... All the same, this book could be of interest to those teaching and studying photography in contemporary art." (International Journal of Education through Art, 2011)

"This volume is indispensable for theorists and historians of photography, as well as those concerned with post-1960s contemporary visual culture. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." (Choice, 1 May 2011)