Introduction
Dennis Oppenheim (September 6, 1938 – January 21, 2011) was an American conceptual artist, performance artist, earth artist, sculptor and photographer. Dennis Oppenheim's early artistic practice is an epistemological questioning about the nature of art, the making of art and the definition of art: a meta-art which arose when strategies of the Minimalists were expanded to focus on site and context. As well as an aesthetic agenda, the work progressed from perceptions of the physical properties of the gallery to the social and political context, largely taking the form of permanent public sculpture in the last two decades of a highly prolific career, whose diversity could exasperate his critics.
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Q439856
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Introduction
American conceptual artist associated with body art and early earthworks movement. In the 1980s he created his "machine pieces" and later large-scale public artworks.
Nationality
American
Gender
Male
Roles
Artist, Installation artist, Painter, Performance artist, Sculptor
Names
Dennis Oppenheim, Dennis A. Oppenheim
Ulan
500011050
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