conceptual

(adjective)

Of, or relating to concepts or mental conception; existing in the imagination.

Examples of conceptual in the following topics:

  • Conceptual Art

    • Conceptual art also reacted against the commodification of art.
    • As with much of conceptual art, the performance is largely presented through its documentation.  
    • The first wave of the conceptual art movement extended from approximately 1967 to 1978.
    • Contemporary artists have addressed many of the concerns of the conceptual art movement.
    • Relate the development of conceptual art to both formalism and the dematerialization of art.

  • New Media for Art

    • Conceptual art emerged as a movement during the 1960s.
    • Some have argued that conceptual art continued this dematerialization of art by removing the need for objects altogether, while others, including many of the artists themselves, saw conceptual art as a radical break from Greenberg's kind of formalist modernism.
    • The first wave of the conceptual art movement extended from approximately 1967 to 1978.
    • Contemporary artists have taken many of the concerns of the conceptual art movement up.
    • Formulate an idea for a piece of conceptual art and a piece of performance art.

  • Photography in the Latter 20th Century

    • Conceptual Photography is a type of photography that illustrates an idea.
    • There have been illustrative photographs made since the medium's invention, however, the term Conceptual Photography derives from Conceptual Art, a movement of the late 1960s.
    • Conceptual art of the late 1960s and early 1970s often involved photography that served to document performances, ephemeral sculpture or actions.
    • Since the 1970s, artists like Cindy Sherman, Thomas Ruff, and Thomas Demand have been described as conceptual.
    • Discuss the progression of photography from pictorialism and straight photography to the snapshot aesthetic and conceptual work.

  • Political Art

    • Conceptual art sought to expand aesthetic boundaries in its critique of the art object and the commodity system within which it is circulated as currency.
    • Conceptual artists experimented with unconventional materials and processes of art production.
    • Grounded by strategies rooted in the real world, projects in conceptual art demanded viewer participation and were exhibited outside of the traditional and exclusive space of the art gallery, thus making the work accessible to the public.
    • Parallel to the emphasis on ideas that conceptual art endorsed, activist art is process-oriented, seeking to expose embedded power relationships through its process of creation.

  • Postmodernist Sculpture

    • Conceptual art is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns.
    • Discuss the various kinds of postmodern sculpture, such as environmental sculpture and conceptual art.

  • Video Art

    • Many of the early prominent video artists were those involved with concurrent movements in conceptual art, performance and experimental film.
    • Many of the early prominent video artists were those involved with concurrent movements in conceptual art, performance and experimental film.

  • Gender

    • In general, movements such as Intermedia, Installation art, Conceptual Art and Multimedia, particularly involving video, are described as postmodern.
    • Postmodernist approaches therefore often consider the ways in which social dynamics, such as power and hierarchy, affect human conceptualizations of the world to have important effects on the way knowledge is constructed and used.
    • Postmodern feminist art seeks a mode of expression that is amorphous and not consigned to the conceptual, theoretical, or aesthetic limitations of modernity.

  • Performance Art

    • Performance art is a genre which presents live art with a conceptual basis.
    • Performance art is a genre that presents live art, and usually refers to conceptual art that conveys content through dramatic interaction, rather than just focusing on traditional performances for entertainment purposes.

  • The Role of the Artist

    • These movements no longer emphasized the importance of realistic depictions and moralistic themes, but were instead based on conceptual and cerebral ideals, ushering in numerous revolutions in the Western art world.

  • What Does Art Do?

    • With the introduction of conceptual art and postmodern theory, practically anything can be termed art.