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About Conceptual Art
Description of Conceptual Art |
Conceptual Art
Term
applied
to
work
produced
from
the
mid-1960s
that
either
markedly
de-emphasized
or
entirely
eliminated
a
perceptual
encounter
with
unique
objects
in
favour
of
an
engagement
with
ideas.
Although
Henry
Flynt
of
the
Fluxus
group
had
designated
his
performance
pieces
‘concept
art’
as
early
as
1961,
and
Edward
Kienholz
had
begun
to
devise
‘concept
tableaux’
in
1963,
the
term
first
achieved
public
prominence
in
defining
a
distinct
art
form
in
an
article
published
by
Sol
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