Publisher's Synopsis
Photography After Conceptual Art presents a series of original essays that address substantive theoretical, historical, and aesthetic issues raised by post-1960s photography as a mainstream artistic medium
- Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2011
- Appeals to people interested in artist's use of photography and in contemporary art
- Tracks the efflorescence of photography as one of the most important mediums for contemporary art
- Explores the relation between recent art, theory and aesthetics, for which photography serves as an important test case
- Includes a number of the essays with previously unpublished photographs
- Artists discussed include Ed Ruscha, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Douglas Huebler, Mel Bochner, Sherrie Levine, Roni Horn, Thomas Demand, and Jeff Wall
