Conceptual Art Zane Bennett

This e book is referenced in Alex Klein’s essay Remembering and Forgetting Conceptual Art from the ebook Words Without Pictures (Aperture 2009). Central to the philosophy of conceptual art is thus the provocative spirit of the challenge underneath investigation – conceptual artwork throws down the gauntlet by difficult us to reconsider each side of creative experience, and it could be up to philosophy to choose it up and tackle a few of the questions conceptual art makes its enterprise to boost.

My largest downside; is that the ‘effective-artwork’ institution is institutionally-inbred something I argued again and again during my art-concept essays, one thing I’m still surprised I acquired away with; guess I was lucky to have a lecturer who felt as I did about conceptual and anti-art; the late and nice Dennis Dutton. The large drawback is the historic stance of conceptual artwork that it surpasses visible art, and makes it irrelevant, in the same way Einstein’s theory of relatively renders the Newtonian regulation of gravity obsolete. However, many argue that he is a conceptual artist as nicely, since his artwork apply is deeply based mostly on clear concepts.

Sturtevant was particularly centered on works by Roy Lichtenstein and Andy …

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