Category: conceptual art

No artist has bridged the gap between pictures and portray quite like John Baldessari. Taking his cue from the issues posed by conceptual artwork, Davies argues that a unified definition of artwork can only be discovered if we consider art primarily in terms of the artistic course of or collection of actions leading to a material factor or different ‘focus of appreciation’.

Conceptual art emerged as a global artwork form during a interval of social and cultural upheaval in the 1960s and Seventies, which coincided with the period of Pop-Art and the Italian motion Arte Povera Its profile was raised considerably by the 1970 artwork show “Conceptual Art and Conceptual Features” – the first exhibition in America devoted solely to conceptualism, which was hosted by the New York Cultural Middle...