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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 ...
Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (UK: / ˈ dj uː ʃ ɒ̃ /, US: / dj uː ˈ ʃ ɒ̃, dj uː ˈ ʃ ɑː m p /; [1] French: [maʁsɛl dyʃɑ̃]; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art.
Michael Max Asher (July 15, 1943 – October 15, 2012) was an American conceptual artist, described by The New York Times as "among the patron saints of the Conceptual Art phylum known as Institutional Critique, an often esoteric dissection of the assumptions that govern how we perceive art."
Allen Ruppersberg (born 1944) is an American conceptual artist based in Los Angeles and New York City. He is one of the first generation of American conceptual artists that changed the way art was thought about and made. [citation needed] His work includes paintings, prints, photographs, sculptures, installations and books.
A giant of early 20th century art, whose glamorous figurative paintings of women played an important role in defining Art Deco, is now the subject of her first-ever U.S. retrospective, currently ...
Amikam Toren (born 1945 in Jerusalem) is a British artist whose works explores painting, sculpture, moving image and mixed media. He was the co-founding editor of magazine, Wallpaper from 1974 to 1976." [1] He is regarded as one of the most important and interesting conceptual artists of the 20th-century to work in the UK. [2]
Agnes Denes (Dénes Ágnes; born 1931 in Budapest) [1] is a Hungarian-born American conceptual artist based in New York.She is known for works in a wide range of media—from poetry and philosophical writings to extremely detailed drawings, sculptures, and iconic land art works, such as Wheatfield — A Confrontation (1982), a two-acre field of wheat in downtown Manhattan, commissioned by the ...
Lauren's 2020 exhibition was arguably one of the most important exhibitions to take place in an American art gallery in the last 10 to 15 years. That's how monumentally important it was.