Essays on Art & Language
Essays on Art & Language is the first book of essays by Charles Harrison on the art collective Art & Language, published in 1991 by Basil Blackwell and republished in 2003 by MIT Press. It received a sequel Conceptual Art and Painting: Further Essays on Art & Language in 2001.
Contents
| Chapter | pg. | Art & Language project | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | A Kind of Context | 1 | |
| 2. | Conceptual Art and the Suppression of the Beholder | 29 | |
| 3. | Indexes and Other Figures | 63 | Index 01, Index 02 (Bxal), Index 003 |
| 4. | The Conditions of Problems | 82 | Provisional Art & Language, The Fox |
| 5. | On ‘A Portrait of V. I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock’ | 129 | Portrait of V.I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock |
| 6. | ‘Seeing’ and ‘Describing’: the Artists’ Studio | 150 | Index: The Studio at 3 Wesley Place |
| 7. | On the Surface of Painting | 175 | |
| 8. | Reading the Museum | 206 | Index: Incident in a Museum |
| 9. | Unit Cure, Unit Ground | 223 | |
| 10. | On Pictures and Paintings | 225 | |
| 11. | ‘Hostages’ 1: Painting as Cure | 244 | Hostage |
| 12. | ‘Hostages’ 2: Some Other Sense | 251 | Hostage |