John Wiley - Photography After Conceptual Art

Art History Special Issue Book Series

In this distinctive series, developed from the annual special issue of Art History, leading scholars are invited to publish new research on key issues and to reflect on contemporary concerns in the discipline. Each collection of essays takes a particular theme and the scope is wide: from painting and sculpture to photography and video, urban history and architecture, institutions, collecting, and historiography.

Titles in the series include:

Art and Architecture in Naples, 12661713: New Approaches

Edited by Cordelia Warr and Janis Elliott

About Mieke Bal

Edited by Deborah Cherry

Spectacle and Display

Edited by Deborah Cherry and Fintan Cullen

Location

Edited by Deborah Cherry and Fintan Cullen

About Stephen Bann

Edited by Deborah Cherry

Between Luxury and the Everyday: Decorative Arts in Eighteenth-Century France

Edited by Katie Scott and Deborah Cherry

Art: History: Visual: Culture

Edited by Deborah Cherry

Difference and Excess in Contemporary Art: The Visibility of Women's Practice

Edited by Gill Perry

Other Objects of Desire: Collectors and Collecting Queerly

Edited by Michael Camille and Adrian Rifkin

Fingering Ingres

Edited by Susan Siegfried and Adrian Rifkin

About Michael Baxandall

Edited by Adrian Rifkin

This edition first published 2010

2010 Association of Art Historians

Edition history: originally published as Volume 32, Issue 5 of Art History

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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

WolfgangBrckle works as an AHRC research fellow for the Aesthetics after Photography project at the University of Essex. His publications include Civitas terrena: Staatsreprasentation und politischer Aristotelismus in der franzsischen Kunst 12701380 (Munich, 2005) and essays on medieval and early modern art and theory as well as on contemporary art and the history of photography and film. He co-curated Von Rodin bis Baselitz: Der Torso in der Skulptur der Moderne (Stuttgart, 2001) and Brennpunkt Schweiz. Positionen in der Videokunst seit 1970 (Bern, 2005).

Christine Conley is an independent curator and lecturer in History and Theory of Art at the University of Ottawa. Her research involves issues of gender, allegory, trauma and cultural memory. She has published essays in books, journals and exhibition catalogues on artists Mary Kelly, Charlotte Salomon, Joyce Wieland, performance artist May Chan, Ed Pien and the Vancouver-based photo conceptual artist Theodore Wan. An essay on Rebecca Belmore and Faye HeavyShield is forthcoming in Jonathan Harris ed. Inside the Death Drive: Excess and Apocalypse in the World of the Chapman Brothers, Liverpool, 2009.

Diarmuid Costello is Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick. He co-edited (with Dominic Willsdon) The Life and Death of Images: Ethics and Aesthetics (Tate/Cornell, 2008) and (with Jonathan Vickery) Art: Key Contemporary Thinkers (Berg, 2007). His articles at the intersection of aesthetics and art theory have appeared in The British Journal of Aesthetics, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Critical Inquiry, Rivista di Estetica, Angelaki, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Philosophy Compass and various collections. He is working on two longer projects, Aesthetics after Modernism and On Photography. He is Co-Director (with Margaret Iversen) of the AHRC research project Aesthetics after Photography.

Mark Godfrey is a Curator at Tate Modern. He is the author of Abstraction and the Holocaust (Yale University Press, 2007) and of Anri Sala (Phaidon, 2006). He curated the exhibitions Douglas Huebler (Camden Arts Centre, 2002), Matthew Buckingham: Play the Story (Camden Arts Centre, 2007), and Roni Horn aka Roni Horn (Tate Modern, 2009). He contributes regularly to October, Frieze,Artforum, and Parkett, and has recently published essays on Christopher Williams, Zoe Leonard, Tacita Dean, Sharon Lockhart, Ceal Floyer, and Simon Starling. He is currently working on a monograph about Alighiero E Boetti, and on a retrospective for Tate Modern of the work of Francis Alys.

Gordon Hughes is a Mellon Assistant Professor in art history at Rice University. His work has appeared in The Art Bulletin, October, Art Journal, and Oxford Art Journal. He is also the editor, with Hal Foster, of October Files: Richard Serra. He is currently completing a book on Cubism and Robert Delaunays early abstraction.

Margaret Iversen is Professor in the Department of Art History and Theory, University of Essex, England. Her most recent book is Beyond Pleasure: Freud, Lacan, Barthes (2007. Her other published books include Alois Riegl: Art History and Theory (1993); Mary Kelly co-authored with Douglas Crimp and Homi Bhabha, (1997); Art and Thought, edited and introduced with Dana Arnold (2003). Forthcoming books are