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	Conceptual Art - MSN Encarta
		Around the same time, another founder of the conceptual movement, Joseph Kosuth, declared that conceptual art is based on an inquiry into the nature of art itself.
		Another important precedent to conceptual art is minimal art, a movement that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
		Conceptual artists originally attempted to rid art of all so-called objecthood and thus of its commercial value as well, and their endeavor survived for only a few years in its purest form.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761560632/Conceptual_Art.html (739 words)

	>Conceptual art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Conceptual art, sometimes called idea art, is art in which the ideas of the artist are more important than the means used to express them.
		In traditional terms this could not be said to be art because it was not made by an artist, it was not made with the intention of being art, and, being a commonplace object, it did not possess the expected visual properties of art.
		Conceptual art also reacted against the commodification of art; it attempted a subversion of the gallery or museum as the location and determiner of art, and the art market as the owner and distributor of art.
	www.jahsonic.com /ConceptualArt.html (667 words)

	conceptual art
		Conceptual art challenges the validity of traditional art, and claims that the materials used and the product of the process are unnecessary.
		The roots of conceptual art can be traced back to Marcel Duchamp, who from the second decade of the 20th century produced various iconoclastic pieces in which he questioned the traditional values of the art world.
		Conceptual art had passed its period of peak popularity by the mid 1970s, but there was a strong revival of interest in it in the 1980s.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0040411.html (575 words)

	Art:21 . Glossary Words \| PBS
		Conceptual art can take many forms, from photographs to texts to videos, while sometimes there is no object at all.
		Conceptual art is also often difficult to collect or preserve as it can be the artist's own experience that is the work of art.
		Modern Art is oriented towards developing new visual languages (rather than preserving and continuing those of the past) and takes the form of a series of periods, schools, and styles.
	www.pbs.org /art21/education/glossary_pop.html (3358 words)

	Conceptual Art Art - Artists, Artworks and Biographies
		Conceptual art is based on the concept that art may exist solely as an idea and not in the physical realm.
		Conceptual art also had roots in the work of the father of Dadaism, Marcel Duchamp, who was also the creator of the "ready-made." Conceptual art became an international movement, beginning in North America and Western Europe and spreading to South America, Eastern Europe, Russia, China, and Japan.
		Conceptual art was intended to convey a concept to the viewer, rejecting the importance of the creator or a talent in the traditional art forms such as painting and sculpture.
	wwar.com /masters/movements/conceptual_art.html (460 words)

	Sol LeWitt, “Paragraphs on Conceptual Art” (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This kind of art is not theoretical or illustrative of theories; it is intuitive, it is involved with all types of mental processes and it is purposeless.
		Art that is meant for the sensation of the eye primarily would be called perceptual rather than conceptual.
		Conceptual art is made to engage the mind of the viewer rather than his eye or emotions.
	www.sinc.sunysb.edu /Stu/kswenson/lewitt.htm (1873 words)

	Conceptual Art
		Conceptual Art is different from "Concept" as the content of art, but can be considered an abstract form of the idea and perception of the artwork originating in the artist's mind, which is later displayed in a proposed structure, and a variety of forms.
		Hence a conceptual work of art, in view of its general purpose and the relative aspects of its components, has unalterable qualities; and consequently, for the artists of this movement, definitions of art and artwork, and their relation to humanity, the environment and aesthetics are in process of re-evaluation, from a standpoint apart from modernism.
		Thus "Conceptual Art", which began as a movement among the many artistic trends of the sixties, conceived to demonstrate precedence of the artist's envisioned concept over the technique employed for its presentation, was found to encompass far more than its contemporary movements and was a major influence on later trends.
	www.caroun.com /Art/ConceptualArt/ConceptualArt.html (1140 words)

	Conceptual Art artists and art...the-artists.org
		Dating from the 1960's, Conceptual Art has its roots in the early 20th century European arts movement called Dada as well as in the writings on language and meaning by mid-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.
		Conceptual art is based on the idea; so is all art, at an elementary level.
		Conceptual art marks a major turning point in late twentieth-century art.
	www.the-artists.org /MovementView.cfm?id=4F46309A-96D2-4C1A-9D2ECE2243C365B3 (248 words)

	Conceptual Art (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Whilst conceptual art in its purest form might arguably be limited to works produced during these five or six years nearly half a century ago, it seems overly narrow – certainly from a philosophical perspective – to limit our inquiry to works produced during that period alone.
		Art is ‘de-materialised’; art is prior to its materialisation and is ultimately rooted in the agency of the artist.
		Conceptual art's claim that art is not so much the perceivable thing that we are confronted with in galleries or museums, say, as the idea that it aims to convey, gives rise to a host of complex ontological questions.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/conceptual-art (7148 words)

	ARTMARGINS: Conceptual Reflection in Polish Art Experiences of Discourse: 1965-1975 (Center for Contemporary Art, ...
		By rejecting the pre-existing models of making art and eluding the power of socially and culturally endorsed artistic discourse, conceptual artists, in Poland and elsewhere, took the risk to "act" in the sphere of the imagination, simultaneously striving to devise the means to communicate their experiences adequately.
		Polish conceptualism needed American conceptualism to push its allegory of politics behind the guise of apolitical universalism, while American conceptualism, largely ambiguous in its concerns for political matters, used its connections to Polish conceptualism to enhance a political content that is missing from its own work.
		Conceptualism emerged during the turn of the 1960s and 1970s in opposition to Abstract Expressionist painting and Pop Art, the latter drawing extensively from the domain of things and their representations.
	www.artmargins.com /content/review/lum1.html (1821 words)

	ARTTalk - Minimalism, Conceptual Art - Art Styles
		Conceptual Art is created to convey an idea or a concept to the viewer without the limitations of traditional guidelines.
		Without drawing from other movements for past styles, Conceptual Art results from the artists' interpretations and their desire that their work serve to share knowledge and not be an art object that is an end in itself.
		It may be the supreme example of Conceptual Art because long after the artist's hand is finished, after his vision is created, earth formations continue to be altered by nature.
	www.arttalk.com /archives/vol-13/artv1311-2.htm (886 words)

	TOM MARIONI
		Conceptual Art in Los Angeles, for Marioni, is influenced by the beach, the weather, Hollywood, Mexico, and Japan.
		His analysis of the development and influence of Conceptual Art and its origins is indispensable for a true comprehension of this important worldwide movement.
		McEvilley views New York Conceptual Art as derived from the idea of the sublime, a preoccupation of Abstract Expressionist painters of the ‘40s that which became essentially a theological movement based on the theory of Edmund Burke.
	www.tommarioni.com /reviews (529 words)

	*spark-online.com >> version 24.0, SEPTEMBER.2001 >> CURT CLONINGER
		Conceptual artists believe that by making the idea the art, they have escaped the bonds of the art object, they have bypassed the skill necessary to make the art object, and they have superseded all the other "base machinations" that have historically been associated with art.
		The art object (with all of its multi-sensory ability to convey emotions/ideas/concepts/truths) is now banished to the wings, and the artist is either left of center, or more often, he has assumed the treble role of artist/curator/critic, and is sharing center stage with a sycophantic entourage of curators, contextualizers, event hosts, essayists and critical pundits.
		And since the curator is the figurehead of the modern art community, he has a very central role to play in "the concept." Even if the conceptual art seems to ridicule and shun the curator, in fact it always embraces him by the very fact that it is conceptual.
	www.spark-online.com /issue24/cloninger.html (1932 words)

	Amazon.fr : Conceptual Art: Livres: Paul Wood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Conceptual Art was a revolution within a revolution, developing parallel to and inside of Modernism while radically questioning Modernism's goals.
		As Wood (art history, Open Univ., London) explains, Modernism emphasized pictorial form as a means of escape from a stultifying academic tradition, while Conceptual Art-at its zenith in the late 1960s to 1970s-was an art of ideas, producing not objects but documents.
		Like Pop art, Abstract Expressionism, and Minimalism, Conceptual art was an historical form of avant-garde practice that rose to prominence in the postwar era and continues to exert an influence over visual art.
	www.amazon.fr /Conceptual-Art-Paul-Wood/dp/1854373854 (499 words)

	CONCEPTUAL ART Biddington's Art Terms.
		Conceptual Art is considered a backlash to the late 20th century propensity to view art as a commodity.
		Proponents of Conceptual Art are concerned with concepts such as the nature of art; conceptual works are meant to be provocative and to expand the idea of art well beyond that of an attractive object whose price increases.
		As the father of Dadaism, Marcel Duchamp is considered the grandfather of Conceptual Art.
	www.biddingtons.com /content/pedigreeconceptual.html (476 words)

	Hard sale. . - Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity - book review ArtForum - Find Articles
		Academic discourses on art are, on the whole, ill-equipped to meet this need, since it requires taking a position on the historical meaning of the present, which is an inherently political task.
		Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity focuses exclusively on the activities of the "conceptual art dealer and entrepreneur" Seth Siegelaub in New York between 1964 and 1971.
		For if, as Siegelaub argued, Conceptual art is an art in which forms of information traditionally regarded as "secondary" to the work become the "primary information" of the work itself, there is no longer any necessary material distinction between the work and its publicity.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0268/is_6_41/ai_98123121 (593 words)

	DDOOSS, Sol Lewitt
		This kind of art is not theoretical or illustrative of theories; it is intuitive, it is involved with all types of mental processes and it is purposeless.
		Art that is meant for the sensation of the eye primarily would be called perceptual rather than conceptual.
		Conceptual art is made to engage the mind of the viewer rather than his eye or emotions.
	www.ddooss.org /articulos/idiomas/Sol_Lewitt.htm (2434 words)

	The estate of conceptual art
		On Danto's account of things it was with conceptual art that the 'philosophical coming of age' of the visual arts began; it might be useful to examine in some detail h ow our work was taken as art just now.
		Godfrey had begun by informing us that conceptual art "offers a thorough critique of art and representation"; but before we are very far into his book we may begin to wonder whether conceptual artists were capable, ever, of mounting any sort of critique.
		Conceptual art must have been a more intelligent activity, to begin with, than Godfrey's account suggests; but it has come to be an empty thing mostly, it would seem, in the English-speaking art world at least.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1723/17230680.htm (2079 words)

	On Conceptual Art and New Media by Eduardo Navas
		While it is true that artists part of the net.art group were influenced by a certain type of conceptualism, the premises behind conceptual art as it is understood from its origins in the New York scene is practically irrelevant in new media practice.
		Conceptual art, mainly in the New York scene, developed in reaction to Greenbergian modernism; this is specific to Joseph Kosuth and his contemporaries.
		Conceptualism did-New York conceptualism to be exact.[5] Whether moving towards or away from the object; the point is that, in conceptualism, the materiality of the object of art was in question, or at least it was the subject of reflection.
	www.netartreview.net /monthly/0705_3.html (1441 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Conceptual Art (Themes & Movements): Books: Peter Osborne
		Since the mid 1960s conceptual art - an art that consists of ideas written down, enacted or simply carried in your head - has directly challenged the very notion that a work of art is by definition an object of visual pleasure.
		Conceptual art, since its high period from the 1966 to 1972, has not only influenced all subsequent art but has made a major contribution to the history of ideas.
		Conceptual art in turn drew much of its inspirations from the writings of thinkers ranging from the philosopher Ludwig Wittenstein to the playwright Samuel Beckett.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Conceptual-Themes-Movements-Peter-Osborne/dp/0714839302 (768 words)

	Tate Archive Journeys \| Reise \| Art Movements, Conceptual art
		Conceptual art is now considered the forerunner of international conceptualism seen in much of contemporary art, albeit with a socio-political dimension.
		Conceptual art encompasses a great variety of different art forms, such as performance, process and land art, which can be linked only by the notion that the idea is the overriding feature of importance within the art work.
		Conceptual art and Minimalism overlap and interrelate substantially and several artists can be said to belong to both tendancies.
	www.tate.org.uk /archivejourneys/reisehtml/mov_conceptual.htm (513 words)

	WHAT ART IS Online - Ch. 14: Postmodernism in the "Visual Arts"
		Beginning with the first stirrings of Pop art in the mid-1950s, postmodernism in the "visual arts" was a deliberate rejection of previous modernist practice, theory, and criticism--in particular, of Abstract Expressionism and the formalist criticism of Clement Greenberg.
		Like other purported twentieth-century innovations in the arts, conceptual art rests on a set of false assumptions, about human perception and cognition, about the nature (and purpose) of art, and about the properties of the various art forms.
		The arts of the infinite future, regardless of technological advances, will not differ essentially from what they were in prehistory when man painted images of animals on the walls of caves, carved the human figure, told stories, and made music on flutes.
	www.aristos.org /whatart/ch14.htm (964 words)

	spiked-culture \| Article \| Conceptual art
		Conceptual art is concerned with ideas and meanings, rather than forms and materials.
		Conceptual art refuses to be judged in conventional artistic terms, in terms of the material art object.
		The label of conceptual art is liberally bandied around, and stuck on to any piece of modern art that somebody wants to discredit.
	www.spiked-online.com /Articles/00000006DFD9.htm (1327 words)

	ArtLex's Con page
		In reference to art, imagery which departs from perceptual accuracy to present a mental formulation of the object, rather than its appearance alone.
		As examples, the rigidly formal art of ancient Egypt may be viewed as conceptual, whereas the Realism of Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877) is perceptual.
		The aim was to construct abstract sculpture suitable for an industrialized society, and the work pioneered the use of modern technology and materials such as wood, glass, plastics and steel.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/Con.html (3700 words)

	Tate \| Glossary \| Conceptual art
		The long subtitle of the book referred to ‘so-called conceptual or information or idea art’.Conceptual artists do not set out to make a painting or a sculpture and then fit their ideas to that existing form.
		From this it follows that conceptual art can be almost anything, but from the late 1960s certain prominent trends appeared such as Performance (or Action) art, Land art, and the Italian movement Arte Povera (poor art).
		Conceptual art was initially a movement of the 1960s and 1970s but has been hugely influential since.
	www.tate.org.uk /collections/glossary/definition.jsp?entryId=73 (238 words)

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