Essays on Art & Language
Book on Art & Language by Charles Harrison
Background
Published in 1991 by Basil Blackwell
Republished in 2003 by MIT Press
Sequel: Conceptual Art and Painting: Further Essays on Art & Language
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Contents
| Chapter | Art & Language project | pg. | |
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| 1 | A Kind of Context | 1 | |
| 2 | Conceptual Art and the Suppression of the Beholder | 29 | |
| 3 | Indexes and Other Figures | Index, Index 02 (Bxal), Index 003 | 63 |
| 4 | The Conditions of Problems | Provisional Art & Language, The Fox | 82 |
| 5 | On ‘A Portrait of V. I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock’ |  Portrait of V.I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock
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129 |
| 6 | ‘Seeing’ and ‘Describing’: the Artists’ Studio | Index: The Studio at 3 Wesley Place | 150 |
| 7 | On the Surface of Painting | 175 | |
| 8 | Reading the Museum | Index: Incidents in a Museum | 206 |
| 9 | Unit Cure, Unit Ground | 223 | |
| 10 | On Pictures and Paintings | 225 | |
| 11 | ‘Hostages’ 1: Painting as Cure | Hostage | 244 |
| 12 | ‘Hostages’ 2: Some Other Sense | Hostage | 251 |