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Using tape and Letraset stencils, he displayed those measurements to full scale in the rooms where they were taken. 1940) recorded the dimensions of museum walls and doorways. When her anonymous axioms suddenly appear in public spaces, such as on an electronic advertising marquee in Times Square, or as shown here in New York’s Guggenheim Museum, the viewer must reckon with an unsettling phrase that seems to possess a Big Brother kind of authority. 1950) produces text pieces consisting of pithy statements for which their context is as important as the words. Untitled (Selections from Truisms, Inflammatory Essays, The Living Series, The Survival Series, Under a Rock, Laments and Child Text) (1989)Īmerican artist Jenny Holzer (b. The art statement could be written differently, spoken or thought. His art resides in its idea, not in its physical form. 1936), the artist’s concept is to claim the ideas he is not thinking about as his idea for art. The idea of a rectangle can exist without drawing a rectangle or making a rectangular structure, just as art can be expressed as an idea without a physical execution of that idea.Īll the Things I Know But of Which I Am Not at the Moment Thinking (1969) Kosuth had compared art to mathematics and geometry, pure geometry consisting of ideas while physical manifestations of geometry belong to other fields, such as architecture. Language, mathematics and systems of order interest many Conceptual artists, as these are the media of pure ideas. By choosing simply to paint or sculpt, an artist is merely accepting and not questioning traditional definitions of art. In his essay "Art after Philosophy" (1969) he argued that after Duchamp’s readymades, art’s only task is to question and define what art is. The same is true of art, an art object being merely a manifestation of the idea of "art." Kosuth rebelled against traditional categories of painting and sculpture. 1945) presents a photograph of a chair, a physical chair and a dictionary definition of a chair and asks, which is the real chair? The physical chair could be considered a reproduction of the definition, as is the photograph a reproduction of the physical chair. He explained, "In Conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work … all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair."
LeWitt’s "Paragraphs on Conceptual Art" (1967), published in the widely read magazine "Artforum," helped solidify some of the tenets shared by many Conceptual artists. Rather than merely responding to our perceptions of the colours red and white, we are forced to think about our conceptions of "red" and "white" and how they are delimited by language. In this piece he subverts that tendency by placing the names of the colours on the piece. In the 1960s Sol LeWitt (1928– 2007) felt that colour distracted from the idea of art by drawing attention to art’s mere physical properties. For Conceptual artists, Duchamp proved that art is not defined by the qualities of particular objects, but by the discourse surrounding them as works of art-discourse generated by artists, critics, and art historians, and by museums, galleries, and art publications. These objects became art simply because Duchamp chose to call them art, and he had the authority to do so because the art world considered him an artist. Duchamp’s ready-mades-found objects that he exhibited as art-defied all traditional notions of art: they were not beautiful, they did not express anything personal about the artist, they were not original or unique objects, they had not been crafted by the artist. The importance of Duchamp cannot be underestimated, particularly for young American artists who were looking for an alternative to the dominance of New York’s Abstract Expressionism in the years following the Second World War. They are not interested in craft and form, but in the definition of art in general. You’re doing it right! As explained in Phaidon’s The Art Museum, the world’s most comprehensive exhibition of fine art to be collected and presented in book format (each page is its own gallery room!), Conceptual Art “is not meant to be looked at aesthetically, but to be thought about intellectually.” In the following excerpt, we present 9 distinct approaches to this mind-boggling movement to see how different artists force our chin into our hands, and have us either scratching our heads, exclaiming “eureka!” or (most probably) pretending to get it in like, a really profound way.įollowing the precedent set by Marcel Duchamp, Conceptual artists "dematerialize" art in order to emphasize the importance of the ideas and concepts behind it.
If you’re looking at a Conceptual work of art and look like this:
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