Paul Wood, Conceptual Art and the Neo-Avant-Garde Speaker: Paul Wood, Senior Lecturer in History of Art at The Open University.The political conditions of the 1930s followed by the Second World War either destroyed or significantly undermined the historical avant-gardes. Yet by the mid-1950s apparently comparable tendencies were re-emerging on an international scale. The relationship of this so-called ‘neo’-avant-garde to radical politics has been the subject of considerable art-historical debate. So too has its relationship to the Conceptual Art of the late 1960s. Paul Wood discusses some of this work and the art historical debates surrounding it.Further ReadingPaul Wood, Conceptual Art, Tate 2002Paul Wood, 'The neo-avant-garde', P. Wood ed., Varieties of Modernism, Yale University Press, 2004, pp.271-313Robert Graham, 'In search of a revolutionary consciousness: further adventures of the European avant -garde', P. Wood ed.,Varieties of Modernism, Yale University Press, 2004, pp.363-399