Photography After Conceptual Art

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. Photography after Conceptual Art addresses substantive theoretical, historical and aesthetic issues raised by post-1960s photography as a mainstream artistic medium. Contributions trace photographic art's remarkable transformation form the 'non-aesthetic' uses of the medium associated with various conceptual and post-conceptual practices of the 1960s and 1970s to the large scale pictorial color images that have dominated the medium since the 1990s.--[book cover]