Writing Art Series

This book deals with the recent theory and practice of art, and with the problems of modern art history and criticism. It addresses both the conceptual relations between art and language, and the different phases and concerns of the Art and Language group of the last 25 years. The essays include a discussion on competing views of modernism in art, a consideration of the Conceptual Art movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and an analysis of the artist's studio as a genre and studies of individual paintings.

Conceptual Art and Painting

by Charles Harrison

Published 21 December 2001

Critical and theoretical essays by a long-time participant in the Art & Language movement.

In Conceptual Art and Painting, a companion to his Essays on Art & Language, Charles Harrison reconsiders Conceptual Art in light of renewed interest in the original movement and of the various forms of "neo-Conceptual" art. He discusses developments in the Art & Language movement since 1991, during which time there have been major retrospectives of its work at the Musee du Jeu de Paume in Paris, the Antonio Tapies Foundation in Barcelona, and PS1 in New York. Harrison also addresses larger issues of painting as an art, the representation of the female body, and the relation of art to its audience.