Conceptual art

Concept art (English concept art or conceptual art ) is a in the 1960s by the American artist Henry Flynt coined term for a modern art movement.

Term

Originally coming from the minimalism, conceptual art or Conceptual Art is ultimately a collective term for a further development of the tendencies in abstract painting and for different art movements such as art object or happening, which consider the idea of the importance of an artwork as a priority.

Mel Bochner first exhibition in 1966, "Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art" at the gallery of the School of Visual Arts in New York is considered the first exhibition of conceptual art movement.

The execution of the artwork is of minor importance and not to be done by the artists themselves. The focus is on the ideas and concepts that are considered appropriate for the artistic work as equivalent. Instead of finished paintings and sculptures come in this sense sketches, documents, texts, or instructions may artists' books, which develop their own aesthetic qualities on. One of the objectives is the " dematerialization " of the art work and the involvement of the viewer. Familiar perspectives, concepts and relationships in the world are questioned, invented new rules. It works with contexts, meanings and associations.

Theorist of conceptual art are Mel Bochner, Sol LeWitt, Art & Language, Joseph Kosuth and Victor Burgin. An artistic example of this movement was Marcel Duchamp. He limited his art of " retinal art" from that ( for example gimmicky ) acts primarily on the eye, rather than act as an idea or combination of importance in thinking. This approach can be concept art for the layman often elitist, brittle, and appear difficult to access. Some works of conceptual art is only revealed by the examination of the artist and his thinking.

Different currents of the avant -garde of the 1960s, such as the paintings of Robert Ryman, photo books of Ed Ruscha, the sculpture by Carl Andre, Robert Morris and Robert Smithson, Fluxus were immediate and often confusingly similar precursor of conceptualism. Also, due to the influence of art magazines such as Artforum and Avalanche, Parachute, Flash Art, Art Press emerged very soon fast in America and Europe groups of conceptualist that is oriented to New York and yet were independent regional centers: in North America as San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Vancouver and Toronto.

Artists

Concept Artist A- Z

• Vito Acconci ( b. 1940, USA )
• Vincenzo Agnetti (* 1926-1981 Italy)
• Ai Weiwei ( b. 1957, China)
• Eleanor Antin ( b. 1935, USA )
• Arakawa (* 1936-2010, United States)
• Art & Language ( born 1968, England)
• Michael Asher (* 1943-2012, United States)
• Terry Atkinson ( born 1939, England)
• John Baldessari ( born 1931, USA )
• Michael Baldwin ( b. 1945, England)
• Stefan Banz ( b. 1961, Switzerland )
• Robert Barry ( b. 1936, USA )
• Jean -Michel Basquiat ( 1960-1988 *, United States)
• Bernd and Hilla Becher ( 1931-2007 * 1934, Germany )
• Joseph Beuys ( 1921-1986 *, Germany )
• Sebastian Bieniek ( b. 1975, Poland)
• Adolf brewers (1915-2012, Germany )
• Mel Bochner ( b. 1940, USA )
• Cosima von Bonin (born 1962, Kenya)
• Ecke Bonk ( b. 1953, Egypt)
• George Brecht ( 1926-2008 *, United States)
• Marcel Broodthaers ( 1924-1976 *, Belgium)
• Stanley Brouwn ( b. 1935, The Netherlands)
• Daniel Buren ( b. 1938, France)
• Victor Burgin ( born 1941, England)
• Ian Burn (* 1939-1993, Australia)
• Eugenia Butler ( * 1947-2008, United States)
• John Cage ( 1912-1992 *, United States)
• Sophie Calle ( b. 1953, France)
• Paul Cotton ( b. 1939, USA )
• Darboven (* 1941-2009, Germany )
• Stefan Demary (* 1958-2010, Germany )
• January Dibbet ( b. 1941, The Netherlands)
• Marcel Duchamp ( 1887-1968 *, France, United States)
• Maria Eichhorn (* 1962, Germany )
• Pieter Engels ( b. 1938, The Netherlands)
• Miklós Erdély (* 1928 to 1986, Hungary)
• Gerald Ferguson (* 1937-2009, USA, Canada )

• Barry Flanagan ( 1941-2009 *, England)
• Kurt Fleckenstein ( * 1949, Germany )
• Samuel J. Fleiner (* 1963, Germany )
• Henry Flynt ( born 1940, USA )
• Y. Fongi (* 1936-2012, Germany )
• Terry Fox ( 1943-2008 *, United States)
• H.R. Fricker ( born 1947, Switzerland )
• Howard Fried ( born 1946, USA )
• Hamish Fulton ( b. 1946, England)
• Jochen Gerz ( * 1940, Germany )
• Hubertus Gojowczyk ( * 1943, Germany )
• Dan Graham ( b. 1942, USA )
• Genco Gulan (born 1969, Turkey)
• Hans Haacke ( b. 1936, Germany )
• Martin Hofer (* 1982, Germany )
• Douglas Huebler ( 1924-1997 * )
• Res Ingold (born 1954, Switzerland )
• Ilya Kabakov ( b. 1933, USSR)
• On Kawara ( b. 1933, Japan)
• Peter Kees (* 1965, Germany )
• Jonathon Keats (born 1971, USA )
• Manfred Kohrs ( b. 1957, Germany )
• Joseph Kosuth ( b. 1945, USA )
• Michael Kress (* 1964, Germany )
• Yves Klein ( 1928-1962 *, France)
• László Lakner ( b. 1936, Hungary)
• David Lamelas ( b. 1946 )
• Stefan Micheel ( * 1955, Germany )
• Jean Le Gac ( b. 1936, France)
• Barry Le Va ( b. 1941, USA )
• Jac Leirner ( b. 1961, Brazil)
• Sol LeWitt ( 1928-2007 *, United States)
• Richard Long ( b. 1945, England)
• Lee Lozano ( 1930-1999 *, United States)
• Leda Luss Luyken (* 1952, GR )
• Javier Marchán (1967, Spain)
• Walter De Maria (1935-2013, USA )
• Kris Martin ( b. 1972, Belgium)
• Gordon Matta -Clark (1943-1978, USA )

• Dieter Meier ( born 1945, Switzerland )
• Ana Mendieta ( 1948-1985 *, Cuba )
• Orlando Mohorovic (* 1950, Croatia)
• Bruce Nauman ( b. 1941, USA )
• Ondák ( b. 1966, Slovakia)
• Yoko Ono ( born 1933, Japan)
• Roman Opalka (* 1931-2011, Poland, France)
• Dennis Oppenheim ( 1938-2011 *, United States)
• Robin Page ( born 1932, UK)
• Nam June Paik ( 1932-2006 *, South Korea)
• Juan Petry (* 1962, Germany )
• Adrian Piper ( b. 1948, USA )
• Vettor Pisani (1934-2011, Italy)
• Dmitri Aleksandrovich Prigov (* 1940-2007, Russia)
• Klaus Rinke ( b. 1939, Germany )
• Allen Ruppersberg ( b. 1944, USA )
• Günter Saree (* 1940-1973, Germany )
• Sarkis Zabunyan ( * 1938, Turkey)
• Karl Schaper ( * 1920-2008, Germany )
• Jean -Frédéric Schnyder ( born 1945, Switzerland )
• Santiago Sierra ( b. 1966, Spain)
• Wolfgang Sohm (* 1960, Austria )
• Bodo Sperling (* 1952, Germany )
• Volker Steinbach ( * 1957, Germany )
• Timm Ulrichs ( * 1940, Germany )
• Wolf Vostell (* 1932-1998, Germany )
• Franz Erhard Walther ( b. 1939, Germany )
• Peter Weibel (1944, Austria )
• Valie Export ( b. 1940, Austria )
• Lawrence Weiner ( b. 1942, USA )
• Roger Welch ( b. 1946, USA )
• Wilm Weppelmann ( * 1957, Germany )
• Joyce Wieland (1931-1998, Canada)
• Rémy Zaugg ( 1943-2005 *, Switzerland )
• Markus Zürcher ( * 1946-2013, Switzerland )

Musician

• John Cage