VPSA63H3 Lecture 6: lec6.docx
Document Summary
It breaks the social conventions- it pushes the boundaries. She might be talking about the violent social circumstances that made this possible. Conceptualism becomes the foundation of modern art. The author also talks about how artists re-discovered duchamp. Peter burger- the ideas about avant guard. Modernity- the changes in the 20th century (first half) Conceptual art and conceptualism has the same relationship. And conceptualism is a broader term (switch compared to modernism and modernity) A number of exhibition that happened in 2-3 years 1968-1969-they helped defined a tendency in art. In 1968- there was famous exhibition called xeroxbook- consisted of catalogue. Xerox-book: in the first one is it impossible to see the work in a physical way and photographs. Information- another exhibition and it surveyed all of this activity of work that has happened else where. There are still materials that conceptual artist still rely on such as photographs, documents, texts and photocopies.
