Conceptual Art

by Peter Osborne and Tony Godfrey

Book Overview

This book marks a new, original and authoritative re-examination of a major turning point in late twentieth-century art. Since the mid 1960s Conceptual art -- an art that consists of ideas, written down, enacted or simply carried in your head -- has directly challenged the very notion that a work of art is by definition an object of visual pleasure. Conceptual art is first and foremost an art of questions. As this book demonstrates, Conceptual art...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 071486112X
• ISBN13: 9780714861128
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 3.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.9" x 11.4"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 to Postsecondary