Introduction - what is Conceptual Art?; early modernism - anti-art gestures; the post-war period - alternatives to painting; false, radical and obdurate - realities in the early sixties; who were the brain police? - six types of Conceptual Art; crises of authority - the dominance of Conceptual Art; the end? - the decline or diaspora of Conceptual Art; "Are you Boring or Are you Angry?" - artists using photography; the name on the door - artists using words since 1980; who are the style police? - Conceptual Art Today.
Tony Godfrey is Programme Director of the MA in Contemporary Art at Sotheby's Institute, London. His books include New Image Painting in the 1980s and Drawing Today.
'more than just a compilation of sources, documents, and images - Osborne offers an original, challenging, reinterpretation of Conceptual Art - a solid contribution to the burgeoning re-examination of Conceptual Art.' Barry Schwabsky, BookForum, Winter 2002 'authoritative' Christie's Books, Summer 2002
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