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Title Conceptualism and materiality : matters of art and politics / edited by Christian Berger
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 326 pages)
Series Studies in art & materiality, 2468-2977 ; volume 2
Contents Intro; 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 MaterialChapter 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
Summary "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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 18, 2019)
Subject Conceptual art.
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Political aspects
Artists' materials -- Philosophy
Conceptual.
Art, Modern -- Political aspects
Conceptual art
Form Electronic book
Author Berger, Christian, 1977- editor.
LC no. 2019023146
ISBN 9004404643
9789004404649