In the 1960s, many artists experimented with art that emphasized ideas over objects and materials traditionally associated with art making. In 1967, Sol LeWitt wrote in his essay “Paragraphs on Conceptual Art” that “the idea itself, even if it is not made visual, is as much of a work of art as any finished product.” Conceptual artists used their work to question the notion of what art is, and to critique the underlying ideological structures of artistic production, distribution, and display.
Works
8 works online
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Joseph Kosuth One and Three Chairs 1965
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Hanne Darboven II-b 1970-73
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John Baldessari What Is Painting 1966-68
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Lorna Simpson 1978-88 1990
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Marcel Broodthaers Museum–Museum 1972
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Robert Morris Document 1963
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Sol LeWitt Untitled from Squares with a Different Line Direction in Each Half Square 1971
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Anna Maria Maiolino Trajetóraia I 1976
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