This guide to conceptual art traces the issues and concerns of the first generation of artists involved in the foundation of the movement, with an essay exploring the historical basis of conceptual art, its relationship to the dominant aesthetics of the 1960s (that is, the moder…
Ideas, systems and processes - Includes discussion of pieces of work by various exponents of the movement.
This program explores the art of Christo and his attempts to sway sceptical authorities into providing permission for carrying out his project of surrounding eleven Biscayne Bay islands with 6.5 million square feet of bright pink fabric. His struggles to wrap the Pont-Neuf in Pa…
"Conceptualism and Materiality. Matters of Art and Politics underscores the significance of materials and materiality within Conceptual art and conceptualism more broadly. It challenges the notion of conceptualism as an idea-centered, anti-materialist enterprise, and highlights …
Conceptualism and Materiality. Matters of Art and Politics underscores the significance of materials and materiality within Conceptual art and conceptualism more broadly. It challenges the notion of conceptualism as an idea-centered, anti-materialist enterprise, and highlights t…
Wholly obsolete or always a possibility? past and present trajectories of a 'dematerialization' of art / Christian Berger -- Language is a change in material : on Lawrence Weiner's Ellipses / Sabeth Buchmann -- Materializing conceptual affects : the love discourse of Zofia Kulik…
Conceptualism and Materiality. Matters of Art and Politics underscores the significance of materials and materiality within Conceptual art and conceptualism more broadly. It challenges the notion of conceptualism as an idea-centered, anti-materialist enterprise, and highlights t…