A few eyebrows were raised when Ivan Massow was appointed as chairman of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in 1999. What unites the conceptual artwork of this period is the absorption of the teachings learnt from other twentieth-century artwork actions comparable to Dadaism, Surrealism, Suprematism, Abstract Expressionism and the Fluxus group, together with the ambition once and for all to ‘free’ art of the Modernist paradigm. The origin of conceptual art was anti-artwork , which was an try and destroy visible art, by which case conceptual artwork cannot be the identical thing as visible artwork.
Although the usage of text in art was nothing new by the Nineteen Sixties – text appears alongside other visual parts in Cubist work, for example – artists reminiscent of Lawrence Weiner, Joseph Kosuth, Ed Ruscha, and John Baldessari adopted textual content because the chief element of a visual murals. From the vantage of conceptual artwork, visual artwork is perceived as quaint handicraft confined to 2-dimensional rectangles; and from visual art’s standpoint conceptual art is visually innocuous, empty novelty, and never even artwork. Art does not exist on aesthetic grounds and has no inherent or intrinsic properties.
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