Tracking the postconceptual dimensions of contemporary art If, as Walter Benjamin claimed, "it is the function of artistic form . to make historical content into a philosophical truth" then it is the function of criticism to recover and to complete that truth. Contemporary art makes this work more difficult than ever. Today's art is a point of condensation for a vast array of social and historical forces, economic and political forms, and technologies of image production. Contemporary art, Osborne maintains, expresses this condition through its distinctively postconceptual form. These essays - extending the scope and arguments of Osborne's Anywhere or Not At All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art - move from a philosophical consideration of the changing temporal conditions of capitalist modernity, via problems of formalism, the politics of art and the changing shape of art institutions, to...
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