In the introduction, the volume editor Robert Bailey discusses the five essays collected in the book and locates them within the history of writing about Conceptual Art and conceptualism. A case is made that Smith’s writings develop themes present in the very art they interpret, particularly by making Conceptual Art’s interest in concepts and reconceptualization into art-critical and art-historical concerns. The introduction shows that Smith’s changing approach to Conceptual Art and conceptualism resembles the art’s own effort to reconceive art and tracks how writing about Conceptual Art brought Smith from his early writings as a critic of modernist art in Australia and the United States to his later work as a historian of the world’s contemporary art by way of his registering the geopolitical stakes of the Conceptual Art movement as his writings accumulated over time.
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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
Robert Bailey is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Oklahoma and the author of
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
Robert Bailey is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Oklahoma and the author of
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