Photography After Conceptual Art

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."

"This volume is the product of both a large-scale research grant and a conference ... All the same, this book could be of interest to those teaching and studying photography in contemporary art." (International Journal of Education through Art, 2011) "This volume is indispensable for theorists and historians of photography, as well as those concerned with post-1960s contemporary visual culture. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." (Choice, 1 May 2011)

• Notes on contributors vi1 Introduction: Photography after conceptual art 1Diarmuid Costello and Margaret Iversen2 Auto-maticity: Ruscha and performative photography 12Margaret Iversen3 Ed Ruscha, Heidegger, and deadpan photography 28Aron Vinegar4 Subject, object, mimesis: The aesthetic world of the Bechers’ photography 50Sarah E. James5 Exit ghost: Douglas Huebler’s face value 70Gordon Hughes6 Productive misunderstandings: Interpreting Mel Bochner’s theory of photography 86Luke Skrebowski7 Roni Horn’s Icelandic encyclopedia 108Mark Godfrey8 Thomas Demand, Jeff Wall and Sherrie Levine: Deforming ‘Pictures’ 130Tamara Trodd9 Almost Merovingian: On Jeff Wall’s relation to nearly everything 153Wolfgang Bruckle10 Morning cleaning: Jeff Wall and The Large Glass 172Christine ConleyIndex 193