Art After Conceptual Art edited by Alexander A!berro and Sabeth Buchmann

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edited by Sabine Breilwieser

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Art After Conceptual Art I edited by Alexander Alberro and Sabeth Buchmann. p. em

Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-262-51195-7 (pbk.: alk. paper) !SBN-10: 0-262-51195-9 (pbk.: alk. paper)

1. Conceptual art. 2. Conceptual art-Influence. I. Alberro, Alexander. II. Buchmann, Sabeth.

N6494.C63A735 2006 709.04'075-dc22

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Dietrich Karner Foreword

9 Sabine Breitwieser Series Editor's Note

13 Alexander Alberro Introduction: The Way Out is the Way In

Part L After Conceptual Art

27 Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Allegorical Procedures: Appropriation

and Montage in Contemporary Art

53 Thomas Crow Unwritten Histories of Conceptual Art

67 Helen Molesworth House Work and Art Work

s7 Ricardo Basbaum Within the Organic Line and After

Part II. Dismantling Binaries

101 Luiza Nader Language, Reality, Irony: The Art Books of Jarosfaw Kozfowski

119 Isabelle Graw Conceptual Expression: On Conceptual Gestures in Allegedly

Expressive Painting, Traces of Expression in Proto-Conceptual Works,

and the Significance of Artistic Procedures

135 Gregor Stemmrich Heterotopias of the Cinematographic: Institutional

Critique and Cinema in the Art of Michael Asher and Dan Graham

1s1 Helmut Draxler Letting Loos(e): Institutional Critique and Design

P-art III. Post-, Nco-, and New Genre Conceptual Art

163 Edit Andras Transgressing Boundaries (Even Those Marked Out by the Predecessors)

in New Genre Conceptual Art

179 Sabeth Buchmann Under the Sign of Labor

197 Elizabeth Ferrell The Lac!<; of Interest in Maria Eichhorn's Work

213 Henrik Olesen Pre Post: Speaking Backwards

233 Contributors

236 Index

239 Photo and Text Credits