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La tesi, partendo dalla presunta "sparizione della realtà" causata da una circolazione eccessiva delle sue stesse immagini, cerca di dare la risposta a una domanda: cosa fa realmente la fotografia? Attraverso il lavoro di artisti (quali... more
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      Art HistoryPhotographyContemporary ArtPhilosophy of Art
Dès 1968, l’artiste conceptuel américain Douglas Huebler organise son travail autour de trois axes : le temps (pour la série « Duration Piece »), l’espace (« Location Piece ») et les deux à la fois (« Variable Piece »). Il documente alors... more
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      PhilosophyMetaphysicsSpace and PlaceEmmanuel Kant
In the late 1960s, artists utilized documents such as floor plans, maps, instructions, correspondence, and photographs to record ideas or to take the place of artworks that need not be built. These documents were reproduced through the... more
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      HistoryDocumentationVisual ResourcesConceptual Art
Why do we continue to look to photographs for evidence despite our awareness of photography’s potential for duplicity? Documents of Doubt critically reassesses the truth claims surrounding photographs by looking at how conceptual artists... more
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      Critical TheoryMedia StudiesMedia and Cultural StudiesPhotography
"The Aesthetics of the [Non-]Proof" discusses the problems of documentary photography and documentation systems (among others) to refer to parts of the world (like objects and events). Referential, emotive, phatic and poetic communicative... more
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      PhotographyPop ArtConceptual ArtPhotomontage
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      Contemporary ArtPhotography TheoryCloudsThe Sixties
In the light of the critical disputes of American and British Conceptual artists with former uses of notations and text (Fluxus) as well as with the formal criticism/modernism (Clement Greenberg and Michael Fried) three ways of early... more
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      Art TheoryIntermediaFluxusModernism
In the late 1960s, artists utilized documents such as floor plans, maps, instructions, correspondence, and photographs to record ideas or to take the place of artworks that need not be built. These documents were reproduced through the... more
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      DocumentationConceptual ArtCataloguesExhibitions
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      Art HistoryContemporary ArtAntony GormleyLumière Brothers
In November 1969, the American art critic Lucy R. Lippard organized a small exhibition with serial photo-text works in the gallery of the School of Visual Arts in New York. The title she gave it, “Groups,” is a reference to the motif of... more
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      PhotographyText And ImageConceptual ArtConceptual and post-conceptual art
The core of the Conceptual artists (Mel Bochner, Sol LeWitt; the Siegelaub group with Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Lawrence Weiner; English and American members of Art & Language) is situated in the art context of the... more
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      IntermediaNew Media ArtConceptual ArtInstitutional Critique
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      Art HistoryPhotographyVisual CulturePhotography Theory
This article discusses the concepts of document and documentation in Douglas Huebler’s (1924–1997) work of the late 1960s in order to assess the role of referentiality and subject matter within conceptualism more broadly. It examines the... more
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      DocumentationDocumentary PhotographyConceptual ArtThe Everyday in Art Since the 1960s