... This chapter is devoted to the conceptual history of “quadratic equation” in China between the first and the eleventh centuries. It argues that conceptual history must rely on a description of how practitioners worked with various elements in their mathematical activity—here mainly problems...

..., and speech during the years after the birth of her son. The nature of Conceptual Art in the early 1970s is explored in detail. Smith distinguishes various phases of development within language-based conceptualism. Kelly explains how her work responded to key elements of these phases and to specific works...

... 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...

... Based on lectures given in 2011 and 2012, chapter 5 is an exploration of the complex interrelationships between “conceptualism” and “Conceptual Art” in avant-garde art practice since the 1960s. The author argues that a number of different conceptions of both terms were in play before, during...

... of labor in order to materialize the exploitation made abstract in capitalist and aesthetic forms. scientific management conceptualism deskilling labor process theory post-studio art ...