One and Five Ideas

Terry Smith is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Pittsburgh and Professor in the Division of Philosophy, Art, and Critical Thought at the European Graduate School. He is the author of several books, including Making the Modern: Industry, Art, and Design in America and What Is Contemporary Art?  Robert Bailey is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Oklahoma and the author of Art & Language International: Conceptual Art between Art Worlds, also published by Duke University Press.

"Terry Smith writes about the history of Conceptual Art as its participant and observer-and his book produces a stereoscopic image of the movement that is fascinating and persuasive. According to Smith, Conceptual Art has transformed itself into the global conceptualism that is still contemporary. This book should be read by everybody who has become tired of the simplistic opposition between global and local and looks for the ways to overcome it." -- Boris Groys, author of In the Flow "Scholars, critics, artists, and students concerned with the legacy of conceptual art in the present-particularly those focused on its development as a kind of global lingua franca for contemporary art-will welcome the publication of this tremendous book." -- Blake Stimson, author of Citizen Warhol

• List of Illustrations  ixAcknowledgments  xiiiIntroduction: A Theory of Conceptualism / Robert Bailey  11. Art and Art and Language  372. The Tasks of Translation: Art & Language in Australia and New Zealand, 1975-76  573. A Conversation about Conceptual Art, Subjectivity, and the Post-Partum Document  854. Peripheries in Motion: Conceptualism and Conceptual Art in Australia and New Zealand  995. One and Three Ideas: Conceptualism Before, During, and After Conceptual Art  127Index  145