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Article: Are Remarks History?: Gertrude Stein as Conceptual Artist
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- Gender Forum
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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CopyrightCopyright Prof. Dr. Beate Neumeier 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Most of you know that in a funny kind of way you are nearer your grandparents than your parents [. . .]. I created a movement of which you are the grandchildren. -Gertrude Stein
1 Although critics typically characterize Gertrude Stein as a modernist, it is at least as useful to approach her as an antecedent for language-based conceptual and activist artists emerging during the second half of the twentieth century, such as Barbara Kruger and the Guerrilla Girls. As critic Tony Godfrey explains, "Conceptual art is not about forms or materials, but about ideas and meanings. It cannot be defined in terms of any medium or style, but rather by the way it questions what art is" (4). Conceptual ...