{"product_id":"photography-after-conceptual-art-isbn-9781444333602","title":"Photography After Conceptual Art","description":"\u003ci\u003ePhotography After Conceptual Art\u003c\/i\u003e presents a series of original essays that address substantive theoretical, historical, and aesthetic issues raised by post-1960s photography as a mainstream artistic medium   \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eSelected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2011\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAppeals to people interested in artist's use of photography and in contemporary art  \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTracks the efflorescence of photography as one of the most important mediums for contemporary art \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the relation between recent art, theory and aesthetics, for which photography serves as an important test case \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes a number of the essays with previously unpublished photographs\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eArtists discussed include Ed Ruscha, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Douglas Huebler, Mel Bochner, Sherrie Levine, Roni Horn, Thomas Demand, and Jeff Wall\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on contributors vi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction: Photography after conceptual art 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDiarmuid Costello and Margaret Iversen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Auto-maticity: Ruscha and performative photography 12\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMargaret Iversen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Ed Ruscha, Heidegger, and deadpan photography 28\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAron Vinegar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Subject, object, mimesis: The aesthetic world of the Bechers’ photography 50\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSarah E. James\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Exit ghost: Douglas Huebler’s face value 70\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGordon Hughes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Productive misunderstandings: Interpreting Mel Bochner’s theory of photography 86\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLuke Skrebowski\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Roni Horn’s Icelandic encyclopedia 108\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMark Godfrey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Thomas Demand, Jeff Wall and Sherrie Levine: Deforming ‘Pictures’ 130\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTamara Trodd\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Almost Merovingian: On Jeff Wall’s relation to nearly everything 153\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWolfgang Bruckle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Morning cleaning: Jeff Wall and The Large Glass 172\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristine Conley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 193\u003c\/p\u003e \"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)  \u003cp\u003e \"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)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eDiarmuid Costello\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick. He co-edited (with Dominic Willsdon) \u003ci\u003eThe Life and Death of\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eImages: Ethics and Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), and (with Jonathan Vickery) Art\u003ci\u003e:\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eKey Contemporary Thinkers\u003c\/i\u003e (2007). His articles have appeared in \u003ci\u003eBritish\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eJournal of Aesthetics, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Critical\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eInquiry, Rivista di Estetica,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAngelaki\u003c\/i\u003e.    \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMargaret Iversen\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Art History and Theory, University of Essex. Her books include \u003ci\u003eBeyond Pleasure: Freud, Lacan, Barthes\u003c\/i\u003e (2007); \u003ci\u003eAlois Riegl: Art History and Theory\u003c\/i\u003e (1993); \u003ci\u003eMary Kelly\u003c\/i\u003e, co-authored with Douglas Crimp and Homi Bhabha (1997). \u003ci\u003eWriting Art History\u003c\/i\u003e, co-authored with Stephen Melville, is forthcoming.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIversen and Costello are also Co-Directors of the AHRC research project \"Aesthetics after Photography.\"\u003c\/p\u003e Although many believe that photography has emerged as post-conceptual art's pre-eminent medium, there is as yet little consensus about the state of contemporary photographic art. What exactly is at stake? \u003ci\u003ePhotography After Conceptual Art\u003c\/i\u003e presents a series of original essays that address substantive theoretical, historical, and aesthetic issues raised by post 1960s photography as a mainstream artistic medium - particularly in light of the oft-heard critique of the arts' 'post-medium' condition. Contributions trace photographic art's remarkable transformation from the 'non-aesthetic' uses of the medium associated with various conceptual and post-conceptual practices of the 1960s and 70s to the large scale pictorial colour images that have dominated the medium since the 90s. The theoretical and aesthetic implications of this historical metamorphosis are considered from a number of conflicting theoretical perspectives. Among the influential artists discussed are Ed Ruscha, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Douglas Huebler, Mel Bochner, Sherrie Levine, Roni Horn, Thomas Demand, and Jeff Wall - whose work is considered from the perspectives of Martin Heidegger, Theodor Adorno, Gilles Deleuze, Roland Barthes, and Michael Fried, and several others. \u003ci\u003ePhotography After Conceptual Art\u003c\/i\u003e offers an insightful and illuminating snapshot of the current state of debate in the realm of photographic art.","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989784346853,"sku":"NP9781444333602","price":36.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781444333602.jpg?v=1761785454","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/photography-after-conceptual-art-isbn-9781444333602","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}