One and Five Ideas: On Conceptual Art and Conceptualism
Terry Smith is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Pittsburgh and Professor in the Division of Philosophy, Art, and Critical Thought at the European Graduate School. He is the author of several books, including Making the Modern: Industry, Art, and Design in America and What Is Contemporary Art?
Robert Bailey is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Oklahoma and the author of Art & Language International: Conceptual Art between Art Worlds, also published by Duke University Press.
Terry Smith is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Pittsburgh and Professor in the Division of Philosophy, Art, and Critical Thought at the European Graduate School. He is the author of several books, including Making the Modern: Industry, Art, and Design in America and What Is Contemporary Art?
Robert Bailey is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Oklahoma and the author of Art & Language International: Conceptual Art between Art Worlds, also published by Duke University Press.
Peripheries in Motion: Conceptualism and Conceptual Art in Australia and New Zealand
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Published:January 2017
Terry Smith was one of the curators of the exhibition Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s–1980s, held at the Queens Museum in 1999. In chapter 4, his catalog essay, he argues that the exhibition demonstrates the simultaneous emergence of a conceptual questioning of the nature of art by artists active in a number of places around the world, not only in prominent art centers such as New York. Many innovative artists active there were transients from peripheral cultures, to which they later returned. The essay outlines the emergence of avant-garde practices in the 1960s, based on a belief that...
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