Photography After Conceptual Art (Art History Special Issues)

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and aesthetics, for which photography serves as an important test case Includes a number of the essays with previously unpublished photographsArtists discussed include Ed Ruscha, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Douglas Huebler, Mel Bochner, Sherrie Levine, Roni Horn, Thomas Demand, and Jeff Wall Photography after Conceptual Art addresses substantive theoretical, historical and aesthetic issues raised by post-1960s photography as a mainstream artistic medium. Contributions trace photographic art's remarkable transformation form the 'non-aesthetic' uses of the medium associated with various conceptual and post-conceptual practices of the 1960s and 1970s to the large scale pictorial color images that have dominated the medium since the 1990s.--[book cover]