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I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.
Paul Simonon

Meaning of "conceptual art" in the English dictionary

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WHAT DOES CONCEPTUAL ART MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Conceptual art

Conceptual art, sometimes simply called Conceptualism, is art in which the concept or idea involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Many works of conceptual art, sometimes called installations, may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions. This method was fundamental to American artist Sol LeWitt's definition of Conceptual art, one of the first to appear in print: In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. Tony Godfrey, author of Conceptual Art , asserts that conceptual art questions the nature of art, a notion that Joseph Kosuth elevated to a definition of art itself in his seminal, early manifesto of conceptual art, "Art after Philosophy". The notion that art should examine its own nature was already a potent aspect of the influential art critic Clement Greenberg's vision of Modern art during the 1950s.

Definition of conceptual art in the English dictionary

The definition of conceptual art in the dictionary is art in which the idea behind a particular work, and the means of producing it, are more important than the finished work.

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WORDS THAT END LIKE CONCEPTUAL ART

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Synonyms and antonyms of conceptual art in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «conceptual art» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CONCEPTUAL ART

Find out the translation of conceptual art to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of conceptual art from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «conceptual art» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

观念艺术
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

arte conceptual
570 millions of speakers

English

conceptual art
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

वैचारिक कला
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

الفن المفاهيمي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

концептуальное искусство
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

arte conceitual
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ধারণাগত শিল্প
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

l´art conceptuel
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Seni konseptual
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Konzeptkunst
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

コンセプチュアルアート
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

개념 미술
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Seni konsèp
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nghệ thuật khái niệm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கருத்தியல் கலை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

संकल्पनात्मक कला
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kavramsal sanat
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

arte concettuale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

sztuka konceptualna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

концептуальне мистецтво
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

arta conceptuala
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

εννοιολογική τέχνη
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

konseptuele kuns
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

konceptuell konst
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

konseptuell kunst
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about conceptual art

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9 QUOTES WITH «CONCEPTUAL ART»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word conceptual art.
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Tim Crouch
I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater.
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Damien Hirst
Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.
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Tony Kaye
I've come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books, built billboards, matchbooks, corporate identities. I continuously paint, I've done conceptual art pictures.
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Sol LeWitt
Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.
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Kyp Malone
When I go to galleries in New York, I feel like I'm in school. I know that there's good contemporary conceptual art, but I have a really hard time caring about it. I'd rather look at images of people and things I can relate to. Then again, I didn't go to art school.
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Gian Carlo Menotti
I thought conceptual art was a joke.
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Paul Simonon
It would be obvious for me to do conceptual art, and I think I've done it already with smashing bass guitars and whatever - I consider that as conceptual.
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Paul Simonon
I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.
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Peter Sotos
I'm not trying to do conceptual art.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONCEPTUAL ART»

Discover the use of conceptual art in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to conceptual art and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Conceptual Art
Conceptual art favours an engagement with such questions. As the variety of illustrations in this book shows, it can take many forms: photographs, videos, posters, billboards, charts, plans and, especially, language itself.
Tony Godfrey, 1998
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Photography After Conceptual Art
Photography After Conceptual Art presents a series of original essays that address substantive theoretical, historical, and aesthetic issues raised by post-1960s photography as a mainstream artistic medium Selected by Choice as an ...
Diarmuid Costello, Margaret Iversen, 2011
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Conceptual Art
Conceptual art marks a major turning point in late twentieth-century art. An art of ideas - which can be written, published, performed, fabricated, or which can simply remain inside your head - it is also an art of questions.
Peter Osborne, 2011
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Rewriting Conceptual Art
This is the most stimulating account of the movement to date, arguing forcefully for its vitality and potential as well as examining its influence on art today.
Jon Bird, Michael Newman, 1999
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Art after conceptual art
Well-known art historians from Europe and the Americas discuss the influence of conceptualism on art since the 1970s.
Alexander Alberro, Sabeth Buchmann, 2006
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Conceptual art
Conceptual art has challenged two key concepts normally associated with art - the production of objects to look at, and the act of contempolative looking itself.
Paul Wood, 2002
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Conceptual Art And The Politics Of Publicity
An examination of the origins and legacy of the conceptual art movement.
Alexander Alberro, 2003
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Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology
This landmark anthology collects for the first time the key historical documents that helped give definition and purpose to the conceptual art movement.
Alexander Alberro, Blake Stimson, 1999
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Conceptual Art and Painting: Further Essays on Art & Language
Further critical and theoretical essays by a long-time participant in the Art & Language movement.
Charles Harrison, 2003
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Recording Conceptual Art: Early Interviews with Barry, ...
This is a precious document that casts a fresh light on the early history of Conceptual art, revealing all the doubts and uncertainties its practitioners had to overcome.
Robert Barry, Alexander Alberro, Patsy Norvell, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CONCEPTUAL ART»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term conceptual art is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Many Contradictions of Mona Hatoum
Her work is inspired by minimalism, Surrealism and conceptual art. It occasionally also evokes her Palestinian roots, leading some to see ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
2
Tool vs. Nine Inch Nails - Best Live Band, Round 1
The foursome's ability to meld tripped-out conceptual art with finely crafted rock and metal has captured the imaginations of millions, but it only ... «Loudwire, Jul 15»
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The 'gut feel' approach to appreciating art
Today, installations, performances, multimedia art, conceptual art, body art and many other forms have extended the boundaries of art so wide ... «The Straits Times, Jul 15»
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The $30M Tim Burton 'Superman' film you'll never see
Illustrator Rolf Mohr created conceptual art for a giant spider merged with the disembodied head of villain Brainiac (left). Fighting polar bears ... «New York Post, Jul 15»
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Anna Schwartz's DCM-designed house is 'a great place to live'
We talk about the “elisions” between photography and painting, between art and linguistics, and I'm close to hitting conceptual art saturation ... «The Australian, Jul 15»
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How female artists are fighting back
... painters face, particularly figurative painters – compared to more recent mediums such as performance or conceptual art – is the weight of art ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
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Art Dealer John Riepenhoff Crafts Flagship Beers for Arts …
... dedicated to supporting a small, undistinguished patch of concrete that artist Paul Druecke reimagined as a public park/conceptual art project ... «artnet News, Jul 15»
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Artists Confront Govt. Surveillance with Covert Ops
As a conceptual art project, however, they weren't sure if it the theory behind Transborder Immigrant Tool could actually be implemented in ... «Silicon Valley's Metro, Jul 15»
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Luca Dellaverson's Art of Undoing at Jack Tilton Speaks for a New …
... tilts the work away from Minimalism, which is more about doing, even if the gestures are slight, and puts the artist in the conceptual art camp. «artnet News, Jul 15»
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Nick Cave dons mantle of an artist who inspires and elicits …
“And within conceptual art, that is always a challenge.” When she arrived in Detroit in 2014, she went to Chicago to meet Cave and propose an ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»

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