Conceptual Art

John Baldessari. I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art. 1971

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Language and Art

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Joseph Kosuth. One and Three Chairs. 1965.

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John Baldessari. I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art. 1971

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Let’s compare each artist’s approach
to making art.

John Baldessari. I Will Not Make Any More Boring Joseph Kosuth. One and Three Chairs. 1965.
Art. 1971

MoMA What is Modern Art?

 “I think the wonderful irony
about this piece is that it's text.
But in fact it is a painting,
because it's done with paint on
canvas. So I'm really being very
slyly ironic here in saying, ‘Well,
this is what painting is.’”

– John Baldessari

John Baldessari. What Is Painting. 1966–68.

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 Richard Serra. To Lift. 1967.

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Sol LeWitt and
Instruction-based Art

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 “The idea becomes a machine
that makes the art.”

– Sol LeWitt

Sol LeWitt. Untitled from Squares with a Different Line

Direction in Each Half Square. 1971.

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 Sol LeWitt. Untitled from Squares with a Different Line Direction
in Each Half Square. 1971.

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Outside the Museum

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 • What are some of the locations
where you typically encounter
works of art?

• What are the unexpected places

where you have seen art?

• How do your reactions to works

of art differ in relation to where
you encounter them?

• Do you agree or disagree with

Buren’s belief that context or
location affects the interpretation
of a work of art. Why or why not?

Daniel Buren. D’une impression l’autre. 1983

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Daniel Buren, Untitled (Wide White Space Gallery Announcements), 1969-1974.

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 “Why hang things on the wall
when the wall itself is so much
more a challenging medium? A
simple cut or series of cuts acts
as a powerful drawing device
able to redefine spatial situations
and structural components.”

– Gordon Matta-Clark

Gordon Matta-Clark. Bingo. 1974

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Let’s compare each artist’s approach
to making art.

Joseph Kosuth. One and Three Chairs. 1965.

Gordon Matta-Clark. Bingo. 1974

MoMA What is Modern Art?

Performance into Art

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 Marina Abramović. Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present. 2010

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 “I think a person who moves into an apartment and puts curtains on the
window is also being an artist at that point, you know? There’s something that
exists, and you’re trying to see what it would be like if it was another way.”

– Vito Acconci

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Carolee Schneemann. Up to and Including Her Limits. 1973–76.

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