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Informationen zum Autor 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 (2008), and (with Jonathan Vickery) Art : Key Contemporary Thinkers (2007). His articles have appeared in British Journal of Aesthetics, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Critical Inquiry, Rivista di Estetica, and Angelaki . Margaret Iversen is Professor of Art History and Theory, University of Essex. Her books include Beyond Pleasure: Freud, Lacan, Barthes (2007); Alois Riegl: Art History and Theory (1993); Mary Kelly , co-authored with Douglas Crimp and Homi Bhabha (1997). Writing Art History , co-authored with Stephen Melville, is forthcoming. Iversen and Costello are also Co-Directors of the AHRC research project "Aesthetics after Photography." Klappentext 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 artist's 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and aesthetics, for which photography serves as an important test case* Includes a number of the essays with previously unpublished photographs* Artists discussed include Ed Ruscha, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Douglas Huebler, Mel Bochner, Sherrie Levine, Roni Horn, Thomas Demand, and Jeff Wall Zusammenfassung 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. It explores the relation between recent art, theory and aesthetics, for which photography serves as an important test case. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on contributors vi 1 Introduction: Photography after conceptual art 1 Diarmuid Costello and Margaret Iversen 2 Auto-maticity: Ruscha and performative photography 12 Margaret Iversen 3 Ed Ruscha, Heidegger, and deadpan photography 28 Aron Vinegar 4 Subject, object, mimesis: The aesthetic world of the Bechers' photography 50 Sarah E. James 5 Exit ghost: Douglas Huebler's face value 70 Gordon Hughes 6 Productive misunderstandings: Interpreting Mel Bochner's theory of photography 86 Luke Skrebowski 7 Roni Horn's Icelandic encyclopedia 108 Mark Godfrey 8 Thomas Demand, Jeff Wall and Sherrie Levine: Deforming 'Pictures' 130 Tamara Trodd 9 Almost Merovingian: On Jeff Wall's relation to nearly everything 153 Wolfgang Bruckle 10 Morning cleaning: Jeff Wall and The Large Glass 172 Christine Conley Index 193 ...
