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Conceptualist

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con·cep·tu·al·ism  (kn-spch--lzm)
n.
1. Philosophy The doctrine, intermediate between nominalism and realism, that universals exist only within the mind and have no external or substantial reality.
2. A school of abstract art or an artistic doctrine that is concerned with the intellectual engagement of the viewer through conveyance of an idea and negation of the importance of the art object itself.
con·ceptu·al·ist adj. & n.
con·ceptu·al·istic adj.
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The Space of Art" brings us to the mid-twentieth century with essays discerning Eastern influences in the work of the Japanese-American sculptor, Isamu Noguchi; the French conceptualist, Ives Klein; and the American painters Ad Reinhardt and (less convincingly, to my mind) Jasper Johns.
Say Cheese by Gustafson, Donna / Commonweal
Brouwn's fastidious parsing of the distinctions between conventional mensuration, international irregularities, and the labile dimensions of his own body takes up--and sends up--the Conceptualist faith in disinterested systems, but this injection of subjectivity is ultimately less absorbing than its collateral effects.
Stanley Brouwn: Yvon Lambert by Pasquariello, Lisa / Artforum International
The exhibition featured objects by well-known black conceptualists, such as Adrian Piper, David Hammons, Charles Gaines, and Fred Wilson, as well as by younger ones, such as Edgar Arceneaux, Annette Lawrence, and Sanford Biggers.
African Art Now: Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection by Smith, Cherise / African Arts
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