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CONCEPTUAL ART
photography
DEFINITIONS & EXAMPLES
• The inception of the term in the 1960s referred to
a strict and focused practice of idea-based art
that often defied traditional visual criteria
associated with the visual arts in its presentation
as text.
• Conceptual art or Conceptual Art - Art that is
intended to convey an idea or a concept to the
perceiver, rejecting the creation or appreciation
of a traditional art object such as a painting or a
sculpture as a precious commodity.
HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
• The French artist Marcel Duchamp paved the way
for the conceptualists, providing them with
examples of prototypically conceptual works -the readymades, for instance. The most famous
of Duchamp's readymades was Fountain (1917), a
standard urinal basin signed by the artist with the
pseudonym "R.Mutt", and submitted for inclusion
in the annual, un-juried exhibition of the Society
of Independent Artists in New York--it was
rejected.[5] I
DUCHAMP Marcel
The Fountain, L’urinoir
1917
• Conceptual art emerged as a movement
during the 1960s.
• 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
• The first wave of the "conceptual art"
movement extended from approximately 1967
to 1978.
BELLOCQ Ernest James
Storyville Portrait, 1912
DRTIKOL Frantisek
The Soul, 1930
MAN RAY
Tears, 1930
EDGERTON, Harold E.
Milk Drop Coronet, 1957
TOMATSU, Shomei
Ruinous Garden, 1964
HEINEKEN, Robert
Costume for Feb’68, 1968
BERMAN Wallace
Untitled (A1-Cross), 1970
VAN ELK, Ger
The discovery of the Sardines, 1971
GRESTER, Georg
Labbézanga, Mali, 1972
BALDESSARI John
Throwing Four Balls in the Air to get a Square (Best of Thirty-Six Tries), 1974
FURUYA, Seichi
Izu (Japan), 1978
MICHALS, Duane
I Build a Pyramid, 1978
GROOVER, Jan
Tybee Forks and Starts (K), 1978
LELE, Ouka
Lemons, 1979
BECHER Bernd & Hilla
Industrial Facades #23, 1980
DATER Judy
Ms. Cling-Free, 1982
CALLE Sophie
The Hotel, Room 44, 1983
BOONSTRA Rommert
Untitled, 1984
SIMMONS, Laurie
Pink Stonehenge, 1984
DEN HOLLANDER Paul
Untitled, 1984
KLEIN, Astrid
Night Matter I, 1985
VILARINO, Manuel
Sula Bassana, 1985
GRAHAM, Paul
Franco’s Head on Coins, Vigo, Spain, 1988
LEVINTHAL, David
Untitled, 1988
ARNATT, Keith
Object from a Rubbish Tip, 1989
SKOGLUND, Sandy
Fox Games, 1989
KAILA, Jan
Untitled, 1991
BLUME Anna & Bernhard
Transcendental Constructivism, 1993
FLORSCHUETZ, Thomas
Triptych #77, 1993
HAMMERSTIEL, Robert F.
make it up, 1994
KRIMS, Les
Stilted, 1996
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THE PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK
Phaidon Press Limited
1997