conceptualism

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• If any creative or critical strategy establishes a firm link between contemporary and classical African art, that strategy is conceptualism: both emphasize the preeminence of idea over form.

  Academic text (2001)

• During this historical period, artists and critics began to view the avant-garde as co-opted by capitalism, and a range of practices (performance, feminism, conceptualism) began, in various ways, to challenge modernist assumptions and to herald what would be called postmodernism.

  Academic text (2011)

• We live in the age of Conceptualism; we are, in fact, dominated by it.

  Blog text (22)

• The Exhibition's Theme: Conceptualism in Contemporary African Art

  Academic text (2001)

• Before mapping the terrain of conceptualism in contemporary African art, we should clarify what we mean by the term.

  Academic text (2001)

• As with global conceptualism, it is difficult to trace a definite and accurate chronological account of conceptualism in Africa.

  Academic text (2001)

• Ultimately, conceptualism becomes an umbrella term for myriad art practices and forms that go beyond painting and sculpture.

  Academic text (2001)

• Any contemporary consideration of Jacoby and Argentine conceptualism more generally would do well to take his alternative art history and its implications into account.

  Academic text (2014)

• In South Africa, conceptualism was already evident in the 1970s in the work of artists like Willem Boshoff and Andries Botha.

  Academic text (2001)

• Conceptualism has little regard for tradition—forget the traditions of painting, drawing, and sculpture.

  Blog text (22)

Antonyms

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realism

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An art style that shows ordinary life without making it look prettier

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