conceptual art

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conceptual art Art giving primacy to idea over craftsmanship. Duchamp first asserted the notion, but a movement only began to take shape in the 1960s. Conceptual art questions the nature of art and emphasizes the elimination of art as an object or commodity for reproduction. The ‘viewer’ is often implicated in the production of art as performance or ‘happening’. Artists include Claes Oldenburg and Joseph Beuys.

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