Langbeschreibung
Traces two intersecting trajectories in American art. It shows how rights-based 1960s politics and the identity politics of the 1970s influenced the development of Conceptual art (with a capital 'C') into the diverse set of practices generally characterised as conceptualist (with a lower-case 'c').
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction1 Conceptual Art and identity politics: from the 1960s to the 1990s2 Adrian Piper: the body after conceptualism3 The synthetic proposition: conceptualism as political art4 The political referent in debate: identity, difference, representation5 Institutional gender: from Hans Haacke's Systems Theory to Andrea Fraser's feminist economiesA state of passionate detachment: Charles Gaines by way of conclusionIndex