Conceptual artConceptual Art became a major art movement in the 1960s

and 1970s.

“Conceptual art is based on the concept that art may exist solely as an idea and not in the physical realm.”-http://wwar.com/masters/movements/conceptual_art.html

Joseph Kosuth,Glass Words Material Described,1965

Artist• Joseph Kosuth (1945 - Present) Nationality:

American• Yves Klein (1928 - 1962) Nationality: French• Piero Manzoni (1933 - 1963) Nationality: Italian• Richard Long (1945 - ) Nationality: British

Yves Klein

Some History of Conceptual Art•Conceptual art is art in which the concepts or ideas involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns•The French artist Marcel Duchamp (Some call The father of conceptual art) paved the way for the conceptualists, providing them with examples of prototypically conceptual works the art for instance. The most famous of Duchamp's art was Fountain (1917), a standard urinal basin signed by the artist with the pseudonym "R.Mutt", and submitted for inclusion in the annual, un-juried exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists in New York it was rejected.•Conceptual art emerged as a movement during the 1960s. In part, it was a reaction against formalism as it was then articulated by the influential New York art critic Clement Greenberg. In 1961 the term "concept art," coined by the artist Henry Flynt in his article bearing the term as its title, appeared in a Fluxus publication.

Marcel Duchamp , Fountain ,1926

Joseph KosuthOne and Three Chairs, 1965(left) Du Phénomène de la bibliothèque, 2006,

(right)

Yves Klein“Anthropologie de l’epoque bleue,” 1960 (left) RE 21, Bleu, 1960(right)

Piero ManzoniAchrome, 1958-1959(left) ,Pliers 1956-

57(right)

Richard LongWhite Foot Circle 1986 (left), A line in

Japan Mount Fuji 1979 (right)

Work Cited

•http://www.absolutearts.com/readartnews.html

•http://www.abcgallery.com/D/

duchamp/duchamp.html

•http://www.artcyclopedia.com/

artists/manzoni_piero.html

•http://www.artnet.com/Galleries/

Artists_detail.asp?

gid=424045384&aid=9776

Joseph KosuthOne and Three Saws 1965

Conceptual Art

By : Maggie Bowen

Richard LongChalk Circle1986