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Article: Posteriority and after.(Art After Conceptual Art; Institutional Critique and After)(Book review)
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- Art Monthly
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- November 1, 2007
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Art After Conceptual Art, eds Alexander Alberro and Sabeth Buchmann, MIT Press, London, 2006, 240pp, pb, 17.95 [pounds sterling], 0 262 511959.
Institutional Critique and After, ed John C Welchman, JRP/Ringier, Zurich, 2006, 400pp, pb, 14.00 [pounds sterling], 978 3 905701 65 4.
A pair of posteriorities, then, and with more than just an 'after' in common. Perhaps unsurprisingly, these two volumes share both contributors and subjects--Alexander Alberro and Isabella Graw have texts in both, while Maria Eichhorn writes for one while being written about in the other. The proximity suggests not so much encroaching institutionality (the cause of much ...