Conceptualism and Materiality : Matters of Art and Politics

"Conceptualism and Materiality. Matters of Art and Politics underscores the significance of materials and materiality within Conceptual art and conceptualism more broadly. It challenges the notion of conceptualism as an idea-centered, anti-materialist enterprise, and highlights the political implications thereof. The essays focus on the importance of material considerations for artists working during the 1960s and 1970s in different parts of the world. In reconsidering conceptualism's neglected material aspects, the authors reveal the rich range of artistic inquiries into theoretical and political notions of matter and material. Their studies revise and diversify the account of this important chapter in the history of twentieth-century art - a reassessment that carries wider implications for the study of art and materiality in general"-- Provided by publisher Contents Acknowledgements Figures Contributors Part 1 Reconsidering Materiality and ‘Dematerialization’ Chapter 1 Introduction Conceptualism and Materiality. Matters of Art and Politics Chapter 2 Wholly Obsolete or Always a Possibility? Past and Present Trajectories of a ‘Dematerialization’ of Art Part 2 Intangible Materials Chapter 3 From Air to Architecture Michael Asher’s Early Air Works Chapter 4 Formula and Factory Jan Chwałczyk and Jerzy Ludwiński’s Highly Material Conceptualism Chapter 5 Another Matter Antimatter and the Dematerialization of Art Part 3 Language as Material Chapter 6 Language is a Change in Material On Lawrence Weiner’s Ellipses Chapter 7 Ian Wilson, Conceptual Art, and the Materialization of Language Part 4 Materials of Communication Chapter 9 Marginal Media and Manual Multiples Edgardo Antonio Vigo’s Conceptual-Artisanal Aesthetic Part 5 Materials and Affects Chapter 10 Matsuzawa Yutaka and the Spirit of Suwa Chapter 11 Materializing Conceptual Affects The Love Discourse of Zofia Kulik’s Letter from Milan (1972) Index of Names Wholly obsolete or always a possibility? past and present trajectories of a 'dematerialization' of art / Christian Berger -- Language is a change in material : on Lawrence Weiner's Ellipses / Sabeth Buchmann -- Materializing conceptual affects : the love discourse of Zofia Kulik's Letter from Milan (1972) / Luiza Nader __Conceptualism and Materiality. Matters of Art and Politics__