TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shaked,Nizan
TI  - The synthetic proposition: conceptualism and the political referent in contemporary art 
T2  - Rethinking Art's Histories
SN  - 9781784992750
AV  - N6512.5.C64 S53 2017
U1  - 709.04075 S527S  23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Manchester
PB  - Manchester University Press
KW  - Conceptual art
KW  - United States
KW  - Art
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-259) and index
N2  - The synthetic proposition examines the impact of Civil Rights, Black Power, the student, feminist and sexual-liberty movements on conceptualism and its legacies in the United States between the late 1960s and the 1990s. It focuses on the turn to political reference in practices originally concerned with abstract ideas, as articulated by Joseph Kosuth, and traces key strategies in contemporary art to the reciprocal influences of conceptualism and identity politics: movements that have so far been historicised as mutually exclusive. The book demonstrates that while identity-based strategies were particular, their impact spread far beyond the individuals or communities that originated them. It offers a study of Adrian Piper, David Hammons, Renee Green, Mary Kelly, Martha Rosler, Silvia Kolbowski, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Lorna Simpson, Hans Haacke, Andrea Fraser and Charles Gaines. By turning to social issues, these artists analysed the conventions of language, photography, moving image, installation and display
ER  -