The essays in this volume provide a succinct overview of Burgin s rich and multifaceted work during the last forty years from its origins in debates within the Conceptual Art movement to its present concern with everyday perception in the environment of global media. The selection includes such classic essays as Situational Aesthetics and Photographic Practice and Art Theory , together with less widely-known articles such as Work and Commentary and the previously unpublished essays Shadows, Time and Family Pictures and Monument and Melancholia .