Art & Language, Transatlanticism and Conceptual Cosmopolitanism

Abstract

This essay looks at the role of transatlanticism in the early work of the conceptual art collective Art & Language, arguing that it imagined and questioned the transatlantic as a virtual place in which a cosmopolitan mode of art could be created.

Keywords

• Art & Language
• transatlantic
• conceptual art
• cosmopolitanism
• Mel Ramsden
• Michael Baldwin
• Charles Harrison
• John Latham