Article: Conceptual art; theory, myth, and practice.(Brief article)(Book review)

Dictionary definition: Conceptual art
A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art;      700+ words ...Conceptual art. A type of art in which the idea ... documentation rather than as an artefact. Conceptual art emerged as a genre in the late 1960s ... x2019; ( Roberta Smith, ‘Conceptual Art’ in Nikos Stangos, ed ...

Article: Hard sale. .(Conceptual Art and the Politics of ...
Artforum International;  February 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Alexander Alberro, Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity ... Press, 2003. 239 pages. $35. CONCEPTUAL ART HAS COME TO OCCUPY AN increasingly ... meaning and artistic legacy of Conceptual art remain uncertain, but its very ...

Article: Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity.
Afterimage;  May 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity by Alexander ... Conceptual artist Mel Ramsden called conceptual art, " ... modernism's nervous breakdown ... critics and artists are still defining conceptual art, even as it has since been assimilated ...

Article: Tapping in to tapped out: thinking about conceptual ...
School Arts;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Perhaps one of the best ways to describe conceptual art is to quote an old bumper sticker, "If you like conceptual art, think about honking." Conceptual art is an art movement that came into prominence in the 1960s ...

Article: Yes, most conceptual art is rubbish - but so is ...
The Independent - London;  January 30, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... what is seen as the predominance of conceptual art. Most of it, Massow said, was complete ... overlooked, even though, by now, conceptual art had lost any kind of excitement and ... Massow has a sort of point here. Most conceptual art is complete rubbish. That ought to ...

Article: Just think it; A new Walker show tracks worldwide ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  December 17, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... The easiest way to get a handle on conceptual art is to study the Christmas card that ... Sunday. Surveying about 40 years of conceptual art, from the 1950s through 1980s, the ... social, economic and cultural systems. Conceptual art focuses more on thought than artifacts ...

Article: LETTERS.(Conceptual art)(Letter to the Editor)
Artforum International;  September 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... into the art-historical record of Conceptual art. Soutif remarks, "One wonders what ... six recent book-length studies of Conceptual art (which are more or less the entire ... into the art-historical record of Conceptual art." In his preface to the catalogue ...