Jan Bryant, Senior Lecturer in Theory of Art & Design, Monash University.
Jan Bryant has reopened the question of the relationship between politics and art via a thorough investigation of contemporary philosophy and an important number of artistic practices. Moving beyond the sterility of the identification of art with conceptualism by investigating practices that remain attentive to art's materiality, Bryant has written a book that will be equally important for practioners as well as those involved in the critical evaluation of contemporary art.--Andrew Benjamin, Kingston University London and University of Technology Sydney