Art & Language is the name of a group of English artists who have spent
their careers, some 40 years, working collectively, and are best known
as forerunners to the current revival of collective work. Art &
Language is also the title of their eponymous magazine, founded in
1968. Both the group and the publication center on critical analysis of
the relationships between art, society and politics. In varied media,
from painting to rock, these cofounders of conceptual art remain, even
today, attentive observers of the after-effects of what they themselves
call the "depressing collapse of modernism." Homes from Homes II is
built around the major installation of the same title (2000-2001). Each
element is described, annotated and put in the context of aesthetic,
theoretical and political problematics through extended captions and
essays by the artists, who question the notions of conservation, of
institutional politics and the relation between art and its
institutions.