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The synthetic proposition : conceptualism and the political referent in contemporary art / Nizan Shaked.

Author/creator Shaked, Nizan author.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
Description1 online resource : illustrations (colour).
Supplemental Content ProQuest Ebook Central
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Series Rethinking Art's Histories
Rethinking art's histories. ^A1092729
Contents Cover; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Conceptual Art and identity politics: from the 1960s to the 1990s; 2 Adrian Piper: the body after conceptualism; 3 The synthetic proposition: conceptualism as political art; 4 The political referent in debate: identity, difference, representation; 5 Institutional gender: from Hans Haacke's Systems Theory to Andrea Fraser's feminist economies; A state of passionate detachment: Charles Gaines by way of conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Abstract Traces two intersecting trajectories in American art. It shows how rights-based 1960s politics and the identity politics of the 1970s influenced the development of Conceptual art (with a capital 'C') into the diverse set of practices generally characterised as conceptualist (with a lower-case 'c').
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 242-259) and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: 9781784992750
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