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Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, 1960 - > Conceptual art
Tracey Emin has undergone an extraordinary metamorphosis from a
young, unknown artist into the 'bad girl' of the Young British Art
(yBA) movement, challenging the complacency of the art
establishment in both her work and her life. Today she is arguably
the doyenne of the British art scene and attracts more acclaim than
controversy. Her work is known by a wide audience, yet rarely
receives the critical attention it deserves. In Art Into Life:
Essays on Tracey Emin writers from a range of art historical,
artistic and curatorial perspectives examine how Emin's art, life
and celebrity status have become inextricably intertwined. This
innovative collection explores Emin's intersectional identity,
including her Turkish-Cypriot heritage, ageing and sexuality,
reflects on her early years as an artist, and debates issues of
autobiography, self-presentation and performativity alongside the
multi-media exchanges of her work and the tensions between art and
craft. With its discussions of the central themes of Emin's art,
attention to key works such as My Bed, and accessible theorization
of her creative practice, Art into Life will interest a broad
readership.
Returning to revolution's original meaning of 'cycle', Contemporary
Revolutions explores how 21st-century writers, artists, and
performers re-engage the arts of the past to reimagine a present
and future encompassing revolutionary commitments to justice and
freedom. Dealing with histories of colonialism, slavery, genocide,
civil war, and gender and class inequities, essays examine
literature and arts of Africa, Europe, the Middle East, the Pacific
Islands, and the United States. The broad range of contemporary
writers and artists considered include fabric artist Ellen Bell;
poets Selena Tusitala Marsh and Antje Krog; Syrian artists of the
civil war and Sana Yazigi's creative memory web site about the war;
street artist Bahia Shehab; theatre installation artist William
Kentridge; and the recycles of Virginia Woolf by multi-media artist
Kabe Wilson, novelist W. G. Sebald, and the contemporary trans
movement.
In One and Five Ideas eminent critic, historian, and former member
of the Art & Language collective Terry Smith explores the
artistic, philosophical, political, and geographical dimensions of
Conceptual Art and conceptualism. These four essays and a
conversation with Mary Kelly-published between 1974 and
2012-contain Smith's most essential work on Conceptual Art and his
argument that conceptualism was key to the historical transition
from modern to contemporary art. Nothing less than a distinctive
theory of Conceptual and contemporary art, One and Five Ideas
showcases the critical voice of one of the major art theorists of
our time.
In Art & Language International Robert Bailey reconstructs the
history of the conceptual art collective Art & Language,
situating it in a geographical context to rethink its implications
for the broader histories of contemporary art. Focusing on its
international collaborations with dozens of artists and critics in
and outside the collective between 1969 and 1977, Bailey positions
Art & Language at the center of a historical shift from
Euro-American modernism to a global contemporary art. He documents
the collective's growth and reach, from transatlantic discussions
on the nature of conceptual art and the establishment of distinct
working groups in New York and England to the collective's later
work in Australia, New Zealand, and Yugoslavia. Bailey also details
its publications, associations with political organizations, and
the internal power struggles that precipitated its breakdown.
Analyzing a wide range of artworks, texts, music, and films, he
reveals how Art & Language navigated between art worlds to
shape the international profile of conceptual art. Above all,
Bailey underscores how the group's rigorous and interdisciplinary
work provides a gateway to understanding how conceptual art
operates as a mode of thinking that exceeds the visual to shape the
philosophical, historical, and political.
The artistic tradition that emerged as a form of cultural
resistance in the 1970s changed during the transition from
socialism to capitalism. This volume presents the evolution of the
Moscow-based conceptual artist group called Collective Actions,
proposing it as a case-study for understanding the transformations
that took place in Eastern European art after the fall of the
Berlin Wall. Esanu introduces Moscow Conceptualism by performing a
close examination of the Collective Actions group's ten-volume
publication Journeys Outside the City and of the Dictionary of
Moscow Conceptualism. He analyzes above all the evolution of
Collective Actions through ten consecutive phases, discussing
changes that occur in each new volume of the Journeys. Compares the
part of the Journeys produced in the Soviet period with those
volumes assembled after the dissolution of the USSR. The concept of
"transition" and the activities of Soros Centers for Contemporary
Art are also analyzed.
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