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 MarcelThe 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 JamesStoryville Portrait, 1912
DRTIKOL FrantisekThe Soul, 1930
MAN RAYTears, 1930
EDGERTON, Harold E.Milk Drop Coronet, 1957
TOMATSU, ShomeiRuinous Garden, 1964
HEINEKEN, RobertCostume for Feb’68, 1968
BERMAN WallaceUntitled (A1-Cross), 1970
VAN ELK, GerThe discovery of the Sardines, 1971
GRESTER, GeorgLabbézanga, Mali, 1972
BALDESSARI JohnThrowing Four Balls in the Air to get a Square (Best of Thirty-Six Tries), 1974
FURUYA, SeichiIzu (Japan), 1978
MICHALS, DuaneI Build a Pyramid, 1978
GROOVER, JanTybee Forks and Starts (K), 1978
LELE, OukaLemons, 1979
BECHER Bernd & HillaIndustrial Facades #23, 1980
DATER JudyMs. Cling-Free, 1982
CALLE SophieThe Hotel, Room 44, 1983
BOONSTRA RommertUntitled, 1984
SIMMONS, LauriePink Stonehenge, 1984
DEN HOLLANDER PaulUntitled, 1984
KLEIN, AstridNight Matter I, 1985
VILARINO, ManuelSula Bassana, 1985
GRAHAM, PaulFranco’s Head on Coins, Vigo, Spain, 1988
LEVINTHAL, DavidUntitled, 1988
ARNATT, KeithObject from a Rubbish Tip, 1989
SKOGLUND, SandyFox Games, 1989
KAILA, JanUntitled, 1991
BLUME Anna & BernhardTranscendental Constructivism, 1993
FLORSCHUETZ, ThomasTriptych #77, 1993
HAMMERSTIEL, Robert F.make it up, 1994
KRIMS, LesStilted, 1996
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THE PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKPhaidon Press Limited
1997