Conceptual art can include just about any material: text, photography, found objects, and even the physical space of the gallery.
c. 1960 - present
Conceptual art can include just about any material: text, photography, found objects, and even the physical space of the gallery.
c. 1960 - present
The emergence of Conceptual art can be understood as part of an oppositional culture that envisioned a radically new world in the 1960s.
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Rosler's unsettling parody of a cooking demonstration critiques the relationship between cooking and womanhood.
“A poetics of drunkenness” is how the artist Martha Rosler once described her 24-panel photo-text installation, The Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems.
Conceptualism questions art’s role as a showcase for the creative genius and technical abilities of the artist.
Kosuth wrote that “being an artist now means to question the nature of art.” Take a seat to find out how he did it.
Yoko Ono issued instructive prompts in both her art practice and anti-war activism.
Kusama’s experiments with infinity have earned her regard in New York, Japan, and the world over.
The “father of video art” argued that electronic communication, not transportation, unites the modern world.
Haacke documents the provenance of a Seurat sketch held in a bank vault to lay bare the commodification of art.
Baldessari adopts a familiar school-room punishment as a promise to himself.
These metal balls draw attention to the economic system embedded in art, and the vanity of its viewers.
Using the medium of mass culture, Nauman brought high-brow questions about the role of art to broader society.