Introduction What is Conceptual Art? 4 // Anti-Art Gestures in Early Modernism // Duchamp and Dada 17 // The Postwar Period // Alternatives to Painting 53 // False, Radical and Obdurate // Realities in the Early 1960s 83 // The Dematerialized Object, Almost // Eight Conceptual Artworks 121 // Who Were the Brain Police? // Varieties of Conceptual Art 145 // The Crisis of Authority // Political and Institutional Contexts 185 // The End? // Decline or Diaspora of Conceptual Art? 239 // Where Were They? // The Curious Case Of Women Conceptual Artists 279 // Looking at Others // Artists Using Photography 299 // What is Your Name? // Artists Using Words Since 1980 343 // Who Are the Style Police? // Controversies and Contexts in Recent Art 377 // Glossary 426 Brief Biographies 428 Key Dates 433 Map 436 // Further Reading 438 Index 441 // Acknowledgements 446 // Opposite Bruce Nauman, // One Hundred Live and Die (detail of 6), 1984. // Neon and glass tubing; // 300 x 335 9 x 53-3 cm, // 1l8 x x 21 in. Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum