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Essays on Art & language / Charles Harrison.

Title
Essays on Art & language / Charles Harrison.
Author
Harrison, Charles, 1942-2009
Publication
Oxford [England] ; Cambridge, Mass., USA : Blackwell, 1991.

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Description
xviii, 302 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 26 cm
Alternative Title
Essays on Art and language
Subject
  • Art & Language (Group)
  • Art & Language
  • Art and Language (Künstlervereinigung)
  • Conceptual art > France
  • Conceptual art
  • Concept-art
  • Kunst
  • Kunstwissenschaft
  • Sprache
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Conceptuele kunst
  • Kunstenaarsgroepen
  • Art and Language
  • France
  • Graphic arts History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-295) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Foreword / Thomas Crow -- 1. A Kind of Context. Modernism in two voices. A culture of art. Critical resources. Epilogue: Modernism and the Postmodern. A corrective note -- 2. Conceptual Art and the Suppression of the Beholder. Abstraction and Abstractionism. Minimalism and the post-Minimal. Conceptual Art and Art & Language. Postscript -- 3. Indexes and Other Figures. The index as art-work. A logical implosion -- 4. The Conditions of Problems. Background. Foreground -- 5. On 'A Portrait of V.I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock'. Readings and readers. A monstrous detente. Black propaganda. An essay, a conjecture and an exhibition. The orders of discourse -- 6. 'Seeing' and 'Describing': the Artists' Studio. The studio genre. Painting and expression. Some functions of allegory. The transformation of the index -- 7. On the Surface of Painting. Surface. Contingency. Change. Erasure -- 8. Reading the Museum. 'Incidents in a Museum'. Index: Incident in a Museum VIII -- Index: Incident in a Museum XVI -- Index: Incident in a Museum XXV -- 9. Unit Cure, Unit Ground -- 10. On Pictures and Paintings. A work in process. The moment of criticism. Potential and loss -- 11. 'Hostages' 1: Painting as Cure -- 12. 'Hostages' 2: Some Other Sense.
ISBN
  • 0631164111
  • 9780631164111
  • 0631178171
  • 9780631178170
LCCN
90037781
OCLC
  • 21764114
  • SCSB-10832883
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library