BOOKLAUNCH: ART & LANGUAGE : Conceptual Art and other Essays by Art & Language - 1965-2023

Mercatorfonds will launch the new monograph Conceptual Art and Other Essays by Art & Language. 1965–2023 in November 2025, coinciding with the opening of the exhibition Art & Language – 1965–2025 at Fondation CAB Brussels. Michael Baldwin, founding member of Art & Language, who will be present to sign copies of the book during the opening of the exhibition on November 13, 2025.

 

A straightforward list of works chosen to be representatives of an Art & Language history. This is possibly the best way to show a collective enterprise under the legendary flag of a theoryoriented artists’ community, masters of endgame arguments, circular styles and self-destructive aesthetics. Between 1965 and 2023 there are plenty of disparate episodes. This is what this book is about and it feels like sending modernism to psychotherapy. The reader must choose whether to cling to icons of Conceptual Art or get lost in translation and wander page after page, leafing through a number of powerful essays combining paintings, writings, songs, unclassified objects and declassified items, or go further to witness the unexpected derivatives of what once was considered a masterful conclusion of modern art history.

 

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Conceptual Art and Other Essays by Art & Language. 1965-2023

Mercatorfonds / Yale

232 pages, 25.5 x 29 cm