Documents of Doubt
An edition of Documents of Doubt (2020)
The Photographic Conditions of Conceptual Art
By Heather Diack
Publish Date
2020
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Language
eng
Pages
296
Description:
"This project explores the role of photography in conceptual art practices during the 1960's and 1970's. Focusing each chapter on the work of a single, canonical figure -- Mel Bochner, Bruce Nauman, Douglas Huebler and John Baldessari -- Diack argues that these artists expanded the possibilities of the photograph as a "document of doubt," and played with the viewer's investment of truth and factuality in the medium"--