Terry Smith is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Pittsburgh and Professor in the Division of Philosophy, Art, and Critical Thought at the European Graduate School. He is the author of several books, including
Robert Bailey is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Oklahoma and the author of
Terry Smith is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Pittsburgh and Professor in the Division of Philosophy, Art, and Critical Thought at the European Graduate School. He is the author of several books, including
Robert Bailey is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Oklahoma and the author of
One and Three Ideas: Conceptualism Before, During, and After Conceptual Art
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Published:January 2017
Based on lectures given in 2011 and 2012, chapter 5 is an exploration of the complex interrelationships between “conceptualism” and “Conceptual Art” in avant-garde art practice since the 1960s. The author argues that a number of different conceptions of both terms were in play before, during, and after the brief ascendency of Conceptual Art as a movement during the 1970s. He begins by distinguishing conceptual aspects in the work of certain Pop artists. He then elaborates a “theory of conceptualism” as a description of three phases in the development of conceptualist art as it took a variety of forms from the 1960s through the 1970s in art centers and at what were then peripheral locations around the world.
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