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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Photography After Conceptual Art by Edited by Diarmuid Costello , Edited by Margaret Iversen
Photography After Conceptual Art presents a series of original essays that address substantive theoretical, historical, and aesthetic issues raised by post-1960s photography as a mainstream artistic medium * Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2011 * Appeals to people interested in artists use of photography and in contemporary art * Tracks the efflorescence of photography as one of the most important mediums for contemporary art * Explores the relation between recent art, theory and aesthetics, for which photography serves as an important test case * Includes a number of the essays with previously unpublished photographs * Artists discussed include Ed Ruscha, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Douglas Huebler, Mel Bochner, Sherrie Levine, Roni Horn, Thomas Demand, and Jeff Wallshow more