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... Conceptualism soon became an umbrella term used to describe other art forms that were neither painting nor sculpture, such as performance and video art, and forms that most viewers saw only in drawings or photographs, such as Earth Art. ... Examples of more socially engaged Conceptualism include Hans Haackes polling museum visitors for their views of Governor Nelson Rockefellers support of the Vietnam War, Les Levines operation of a Canadian-Kosher restaurant in New York as an artwork (unbeknownst to its patrons). ... The artist & theorist Allan Kaprow championed Conceptualism as an interactive form of communication, especially in the wake of competition from spectacular, non-art events like the American landing of men on the moon. ...
While conceptual art is most often associated with American and British artistic production of the 1960s and early 1970s, Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s challenges the widely accepted perception that Conceptualism was a single movement that spread internationally. ... Conceptualism broke a states or a regimes stranglehold on the display of "acceptable" art: it was easier to slip by the censors, and exhibitions could be organized quickly and informally among artists, circumventing both official and market structures. ... Its interdisciplinary nature, along with its political face, gives conceptualism its particular character and cultural significance.
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Title: conceptualism
Words: 1077
Rating: None
Pages: 4.3
submitted by: donkinson
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