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  2. Conceptual art - Wikipedia

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    The French artist Marcel Duchamp paved the way for the conceptualists, providing them with examples of prototypically conceptual works — the readymades, for instance.The most famous of Duchamp's readymades 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 ...

  3. Conceptual writing - Wikipedia

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    Although conceptual poetry may have freely circulated in relation to some text-based Conceptual art works (during the heyday of the movement), "conceptual writing" was coined as an idea in 2003, while The UbuWeb Anthology of Conceptual Writing was created by Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith (the on-line anthology [1] differs from the 2011 print anthology).

  4. Concept art - Wikipedia

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    Concept art is a form of visual art used to convey an idea for use in film, video games, animation, comic books, television shows, or other media before it is put into the final product. [1] The term was used by the Walt Disney Animation Studios as early as the 1930s. [ 2 ]

  5. The arts - Wikipedia

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    Conceptual art is art wherein the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. [25] The inception of the term in the 1960s referred to a strict and focused practice of idea-based art that defied traditional visual criteria associated with the visual arts in its presentation as text ...

  6. One and Three Chairs - Wikipedia

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    One and Three Chairs, is a conceptual work by Joseph Kosuth, from 1965. An example of conceptual art, the piece consists of a chair, a photograph of the chair, and an enlarged dictionary definition of the word "chair". The photograph depicts the chair as it is actually installed in the room, and thus the work changes each time it is installed ...

  7. Idea art - Wikipedia

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    Idea art is an art form in which small individual ideas take precedence over grand concepts or ideologies and generic aesthetic, material and disciplinary concerns. The artist works not only like an architect or an engineer, as in the case of conceptual art , but also like a curator or an art writer.

  8. Composition (visual arts) - Wikipedia

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    The Art of Painting by Jan Vermeer. The term composition means "putting together". It can be thought of as the organization of the elements of art according to the principles of art. Composition can apply to any work of art, from music through writing and into photography, that is arranged using conscious thought.

  9. Joseph Kosuth - Wikipedia

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    He further argues that the "change from 'appearance' to 'conception' (which begins with Duchamp's first unassisted readymade) was the beginning of 'modern art' and the beginning of 'conceptual art'." [9] Kosuth explains that works of conceptual art are analytic propositions. They are linguistic in character because they express definitions of art.