1960s– · USA / Europe
Conceptual Art
The idea becomes a machine that makes the art
Conceptual Art is the room the original homepage already named and never built. Here the idea is the work. The object, if it exists, is a receipt.
Kosuth’s One and Three Chairs shows a chair, a photograph of a chair, and a dictionary definition. Weiner writes statements that may be built or may only be read. Kawara dates a day into being. Piper makes the viewer’s ethics the medium.
Once Fountain asked ‘is this art?’, Conceptualism answers: art is a proposition.
