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Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. Cloth, xiii, 234 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. *** "In Conceptual Art and Painting, a companion to his Essays on Art & Language, Charles Harrison reconsiders Conceptual Art in light of renewed interest in the original movement and of the various forms of 'neo-Conceptual' art. He discusses developments in the Art & Language movement since 1991, during which time there have been major retrospectives of its work at the Musee du Jeu de Paume in Paris, the Antoni Tapies Foundation in Barcelona, and PS1 in New York. Harrison also addresses larger issues of painting as an art, the representation of the female body, and the relation of art to its audience. / Charles Harrison is Professor of the History and Theory of Art at the Open University, UK." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: The Trouble with Writing; Conceptual Art and its Criticism; On a Picture Painted by Actors; On Painting a Landscape;…
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