Conceptual Art


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Conceptual Art has set out to undermine two concepts associated with art - the production of objects to look at, and the act of contemplative looking itself. This introduction explores the reasons why the new avant-garde chose to produce such work.




Philosophy and Conceptual Art


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The fourteen prominent analytic philosophers writing here engage with the cluster of philosophical questions raised by conceptual art. They address four broad questions: What kind of art is conceptual art? What follows from the fact that conceptual art does not aim to have aesthetic value? What knowledge or understanding can we gain from conceptual art? How ought we to appreciate conceptual art? Conceptual art, broadly understood by the contributors as beginning with Marcel Duchamp's ready-mades and as continuing beyond the 1970s to include some of today's contemporary art, is grounded in the notion that the artist's 'idea' is central to art, and, contrary to tradition, that the material work is by no means essential to the art as such. To use the words of the conceptual artist Sol LeWitt, 'In conceptual art the idea of the concept is the most important aspect of the work . . . and the execution is a perfunctory affair'. Given this so-called 'dematerialization' of the art object, the emphasis on cognitive value, and the frequent appeal to philosophy by many conceptual artists, there are many questions that are raised by conceptual art that should be of interest to analytic philosophers. Why, then, has so little work been done in this area? This volume is most probably the first collection of papers by analytic Anglo-American philosophers tackling these concerns head-on. Contributors Margaret Boden, Diarmuid Costello, Gregory Currie, David Davies, Peter Goldie, Robert Hopkins, Matthew Kieran, Peter Lamarque, Dominic McIver Lopes, Derek Matravers, Elisabeth Schellekens, Kathleen Stock, Carolyn Wilde, and the 'Art & Language' group.




Between Modernism and Conceptual Art


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Art critic and artist Robert C. Morgan proposes that the Postmodernism popular in the 1980s failed to address, and even misrepresented and suppressed, conceptual art while marketing the notion of "Neo- conceptualism," a concept the author rejects as insignificant for advanced art. He argues instead that it is in the tension between Modernism and Conceptual Art that vitality in art was in the 1980s, and is still, found. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR




Conceptual Art


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What is art? Must it be a unique, saleable luxury item? Can it be a concept that never takes material form? Or an idea for a work that can be repeated endlessly? Conceptual art favours an engagement with such questions. As the variety of illustrations in this book shows, it can take many forms: photographs, videos, posters, billboards, charts, plans and, especially, language itself. Tony Godfrey has written a clear, lively and informative account of this fascinating phenomenon. He traces the origins of Conceptual art to Marcel Duchamp and the anti-art gestures of Dada, and then establishes links to those artists who emerged in the 1960s and early 1970s, whose work forms the heart of this study: Joseph Kosuth, Lawrence Weiner, Victor Burgin, Marcel Broodthaers and many others.




Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity


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An examination of the origins and legacy of the conceptual art movement.




A LOOK AT CONCEPTUAL ART


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1.INTRODUCTION Imagine a profession that is thought to have no limits, but the job itself can set its limits. Whether the field of this profession is human and everything that belongs to human beings, you have in your hands your self and the fact that you live in the world. Let these seemingly small facts be interpreted by being shaped, and now I ask, are there not explicit or hidden symbols in the thought you have formed? Here, in Conceptual Art, he tells us that we can apply art and the symbols in the work to everything, anywhere. However, it should be known that if you are going to make Conceptual Art, your infrastructure must be ready. Where do we find the factors that make up thought that has been transformed into a form that we can apply everywhere? Isn't it the symbols that are involved in the work done voluntarily or involuntarily? The events we experience form the final state of our psychology. When the artist puts aside the "concern about where and how" and only makes form, this form will be nothing at first, but then it will turn into many things, this process can even make us someone else later on. People can find the latest state of their psychology in every action they take to get rid of the troubles of life. We can find ourselves in every movie we watch in every article we read. It's about how we look. Art does this to us, and when we go outside, it places many facts that we think are nothing. So why should the artist be stuck with dogmas during the production and transmission of his work? The artist can see his wish to transfer in a tree stump. Isn't it natural to consider the ceremony of throwing out a garbage disposal as an act of getting rid of the excess in our lives and presenting it to the audience as a work of art? Well, wouldn't the artist displaying this interpretation offer us symbols at some point? Although the artist hides this, maybe not in the first reading, but after that he will definitely give it away. Is the artist's most natural state his primitive state? Everything is hidden in primitiveness. The foundations of many formations that we consider new today are hidden in the "Cro-Magnon", the first race of the "Homo Sapiens" subspecies. Maybe it was magic, maybe it was the ingredients of the magic, maybe it was the ceremony. Regardless of how these ceremonies are, they are the factors that naturally make up the theater. Doesn't it point to the earth's art that they have made on the mountain, the stone and the soil? Of course, there are many effects. Let's take a subject, the first invention of primitive man was a needle. Let's say you make your clothes with this invention. Doesn't the position of the person that they think while making this dress affect the dress they have seen and experienced until that day? Is it not possible to place images that distinguish the owner of the relevant dress from other people? Yes, it is possible and very normal action. Now, let's fictionalize this person superficially, there is a tribe and the owner of the dress is the leader of the tribe, and the person who makes the dress is the man he loves, the father of the children he has given birth to. The only woman of the tribe who sews a dress will inevitably place images that distinguish it from the other men of the tribe. We can even find the distinguishing feature in the differences in the seams hidden in the dress. This has influenced fashion, painting and many other branches of art. He disciplined all the arts within himself. Of course, his thoughts and dreams during production are scenarios. It is fiction and he is a screenwriter himself. Dreaming is the most natural impulse and often a life support unit that cannot be inhibited. It has been scientifically proven that even animals dream. The dream is a fiction. The human being, who is more developed than the animal, knows the way of conveying this fiction. The "must have" is the type of person who sets the rules. So it is human who can lift it. Let him choose his own presentation as he constructs and shapes what he imagines. Whatever the material is, let him do it just for art, for himself or to give a message to people, without worrying about color and balance. The artist, who makes conceptual art, contains his own truth that hides all the elements, no matter where he conveys and expresses. This truth is hidden in icons. The purpose of this research is to convey the existence of this fact to the reader.




Between Spring and Summer


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An Alternative History of Art


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This catalogue presents the artwork of three fictitious Russian artists, all inventions of Ilya Kabakov, and intervviews of Ilya Kabakov.




Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia


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"For the first time, the friendships that existed between this triumvirate are examined in depth, revealing the way their mutual admiration inspired and sustained their creative output at different stages during their careers. All three were fascinated with new technologies that evolved during their lifetimes, including photography, film, mechanisation and mass production. All three lampooned the pretensions of high art, employing humour, eroticism and word play to great effect."--Back cover.