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What is conceptual art in contemporary art?
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In contemporary art, conceptual art is a movement that began in the 1960s. Artists producing conceptual art assign more importance to the idea behind the art than to the piece itself. An example is Joseph Kosuth’s One and Three Chairs, a piece consisting of a real chair, a photograph of a chair and the dictionary definition of the word chair. When the work was displayed, Kosuth included instructions for any chair to be photographed and then displayed beside its image. In this way, the chair itself is not the artwork. Rather, the art comes from examining the way the object, image and words provide competing and complementary definitions of what a chair is. Find a large selection of fine art on 1stDibs.
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Located in New Rochelle, NY
Olga Cairols is a Spanish artist with more than 35 years of career.
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
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Located in New york, NY
Yeshiva Boys, 1954 is a black-and-white photograph of two young studious boys behind a glass door, an entrance to a Brooklyn brownstone in New York City. A gelatin silver lifetime pr...
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1950s Contemporary Black and White Photography
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Photographic Paper, Photographic Film, Silver Gelatin
Abstract Composition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Aaron Levy was born in New York City in 1899. After retiring in 1951 from a career as president of E. Milius & Company, a textile company, Levy began a new career as a fine artist. ...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Flying Colors '76 (Stars and Stripes) /// Alexander Calder Abstract Modern Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Alexander Calder (American, 1898-1976)
Title: "Flying Colors '76 (Stars and Stripes)"
Portfolio: Flying Colors
*Issued unsigned, though signed by Calder in the plate (printed...
Category
1970s Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Large Standing Figure VI (contemporary bronze sculpture)
Located in Paris, FR
Large Standing Figure VI (Grande figure debout VI), large-scale sculpture by French contemporary artist Pierre Yermia. Bronze, 148 cm × 31 cm × 27 cm. Limited edition of 8 + 4 A.P.
He has been developing for thirty years a singular work, filled with human and animal characters...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Lady's Painting - Vintage Photograph - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Lady's Painting is a vintage photo, realized in the early-20th Century
Good conditions and aged
It belongs to a historical and Nostalgic album including historical moments, places...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper