CONCEPTUAL ART photography. DEFINITIONS & EXAMPLES The inception of the term in the 1960s referred to a strict and focused practice of idea-based art.

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