1st Edition
Conceptual Art After Modernism Reconceiving Art and Art History
By Robert Bailey
Copyright 2025
186 Pages
5 Color & 11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
186 Pages
5 Color & 11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This study provides a new interpretation of art after modernism by foregrounding the importance of conceptual thinking as a pervasive force for change in art and art history since 1950.
Robert Bailey shows how distinctions between art and art history gave way as conceptual thinking provided artists and art historians with a common means to reassess what art could be and do in the world. Bailey... Read more
Introduction: A Reconceiving Concept
Part One: Toward Conceptuality
Chapter One: After “Conceptual Art”
Chapter Two: Concepts, Concepts, Concepts
Part Two: Encountering Conceptions
Chapter Three: Conceptualist Art Histories
Chapter Four: Many Conceptualities
Part Three: Reconceived Practices
Chapter Five: Artful Reconceptualization
Chapter Six: (Art) History Reconceptualized
Conclusion: Inconceivable Politics
Biography
Robert Bailey is Associate Professor of Art History and Acting Associate Director of the School of Visual Arts at the University of Oklahoma.
