Conceptual Art and Painting: Further Essays on Art & Language
Conceptual Art and Painting: Further Essays on Art & Language is the second book of essays by Charles Harrison on the art collective Art & Language, following 1991's Essays on Art & Language, published in 2001 by MIT Press.
Contents
Chapter | pg. | Art & Language project | |
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I. Conceptual Art | |||
1. | The Trouble with Writing | 1 | |
2. | Conceptual Art and Its Criticism | 35 | |
3. | On a Picture Painted by Actors | 49 | Art & Language Paints a Picture |
II. Landscapes | |||
4. | On Painting a Landscape | 77 | Hostage |
5. | Fascinated by Glass | 109 | Hostage |
III. Nudes | |||
6. | Tasteless Experience | 123 | Now They Are |
7. | Reflections on the Figure | 143 | Now They Are |
IV. Who's Looking? | |||
8. | Painting and the Death of the Spectator | 169 | Background, Incident, Foreground |
9. | Being Here | 192 |
Illustrations
- Attacked by an Unknown Man in a City Park: A Dying Woman; Drawn and Painted by Mouth (1981)
- Guaranteed Painting (1967-68)
- Index 01 ("Documenta Index") (1972); installation at "Documenta 5," Kassel, 1972
- Index 01 ("Documenta Index") (1972); installation at "L'art conceptuel; une perspective," ARC, Paris, 1989-90
- Sighs Trapped by Liars 651 (1997)
- Sighs Trapped by Liars 373-391, 413-508 (1997); installation at "Documenta X," Kassel, 1997
- Jackson Pollock Bar - The Concept of the New; theory installation at "Art & Language and Luhmann," Kunstraum, Vienna, 1995
- Jackson Pollock Bar - We Aim to be Amateurs installed in the Style of the Jackson Pollock Bar; theory installation at "Documenta X," Kassel, 1997
- Index: The Studio at 3 Wesley Place showing the Position of "Embarrassments" in (III); Drawing (v) (1982)
- Jackson Pollock Bar - Art & Language Paints a Picture Installed in the Style of the Jackson Pollock Bar (1999); theory installation at Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, 1999
- Cover for Art-Language, vol. 5, no. 2, March 1984 ("Victorine")
- "A Picture Painted by Actors" from Art & Language Paints a Picture Installed in the Style of the Jackson Pollock Bar (1999)
- Video of Jackson Pollock Bar - Art & Language Paints a Picture Installed in the Style of the Jackson Pollock Bar (1999); theory installation at Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, 1999
- Portrait of V. I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock V (1980)
- Map for Portrait of V. I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock, 1979
- "Art & Language in Practice," Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, 1999, wall display bays 2 & 3
- "Art & Language in Practice"; detail of wall display, bay 3
- Wrongs Healed in Official Hope (1999); installation at Fundació Antoni Tàpies, 1999
- Study for Index: Incident at a Museum 26 (1987)
- Study for a Museum of the Future (I) (1987-88)
- Study for a Museum of the Future (II) (1987-88)
- Hostage XXIX (1989)
- Hostage XXIV (1989)
- Hostage XIX (1989)
- A Roadsign near the Overthorpe turn, Middleton Cheney, England
- "What remains of the theme of nature..." (Summer 1989)
- Terry Atkinson and Michael Baldwin - Title Equals Text No. 15 (1967)
- Hostage XXV (1989)
- Claude Monet - Poplars on the Epte (1891)
- Study for Hostage 40 (1990)
- Surf 40 (1990)
- Hostage XL (1990)
- Study for Hostage 74 (1990)
- Surf 74 (1990)
- Hostage LXXIV (1990)
- Hostage LIV (1990)
- Hostage LIV (1990); showing reflections
- Hostage LXXV (1990)
- Hostage LXVI (1990)
- Hostage LXXIII (1990)
- Gustave Courbet - L'Origine du monde (1866)
- Exit: Now They Are (1991)
- Unfinished and abandoned armature in Art & Language studio, 1991
- Unfinished and abandoned paintings in Art & Language studio, 1991
- Unfinished and abandoned painting in Art & Language studio, 1991
- Study after Courbet's "L'Origine du monde" (1992)
- Index V: Now They Are (1992)
- Work of the series Index: Now They Are (1992)
- Installation of works from the series Index: Now They Are (1992)
- Mel Ramsden - Two Black Squares: The Paradoxes of Absolute Zero (1966)
- Index XX: Now They Are (1992)
- Index XX: Now They Are (1992); showing unglazed image
- Index XIV: Now They Are (1992)
- Index XIV: Now They Are (1992); showing unglazed image
- Incident: Now They Are, Elegant; Incident: Now They Are, Next; Incident: Now They Are, Look Out (1993); installation at Jeu de Paume, Paris, 1993
- Study for Impressionism Returning Sometime in the Future (1984)
- Study for Incident, Foreground 1 (1994)
- Index 11: Background, Incident, Foreground, no. XXXVIII (1994-95)
- A Model for Lucy Grays (Study for Barcelona Wall) (1998)
- Preliminary plan for Barcelona Wall (1999)
- etc
- "A Picture Painted by Actors" from Jackson Pollock Bar - Art & Language Paints a Picture Installed in the Style of the Jackson Pollock Bar (1999); installation at Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, 1999
- Sighs Trapped by Liars 510-520 (1997)
- Wrongs Healed in Official Hope (1999); installation at PS1, New York, 1999
- Material Slang II (1999)
- Down to the Stone (2000)
Editions
Hardcover
Reviews
Leonardo
February 2003[1]
Robert Pepperell
Art History
April 2003[2]
Michael Belshaw
The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
Spring 2003[3]
Richard Kuhns