Concept Art
Concept art is first of all an art of which the material is concepts, as the material of e.g. music is sound. Since concepts are closely bound up with language, concept art is a kind of art of which the material is language.
Henry Flynt: "Essay: Concept Art." (1961) In: La Monte Young (ed.): An Anthology, 1963.
All I make are models. The actual works of art are ideas. Rather than 'ideals' the models are a visual approximation of a particular art object I have in mind.Joseph Kosuth: Statement, 1967.
It may be preferable, for obvious reasons, to limit artworks to the mind, to allow them to exist in thought only. Dematerialized, planted in consciousness, they would exist solely in the imagination and might survive untarnished.
Lothar Baumgarten: "Status quo", 1987. Artforum 7 (1988), p. 108.
Every competent human brain strives for emancipation from its organic duties. Every competent human brain strives for freedom to shape a purely mental life of its own.
Susanne Langer: Mind. An Essay on Human Feeling. 3 Vols.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1967/1972/1982.
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Thus,
for example, when I imagine a triangle, even though there may perhaps
be no such figure anywhere in the world outside of my thought, nor
ever have been, nevertheless the figure cannot help having a certain
determinate nature... or essence, which is immutable and eternal,
which I have not invented and which does not in any way depend on
my mind.
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Kant Erhaben ist, was auch nur denken zu können ein Vermögen des Gemüts beweist, das jeden Maßstab der Sinne übertrifft. Immanuel Kant: Kritik der Urteilskraft, Buch II, § 25, p. 85. |
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The Romantic Agony
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Generatieve Esthetica |
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At this highest stage, art now transcends itself, in that it forsakes the element of reconciled embodiment of the spirit in sensuous form and passes over from the poetry of imagination to the prose of thought.
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Wiskunde
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Muziek
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Es
ist aber wahrscheinlich, dass es Menschen giebt und geben wird
die weit besser Fichtisiren werden, als Fichte. Es können wunderbare
Kunstwercke hier entstehen wenn man das Fichtisiren erst
artistisch zu treiben beginnt.
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Henry Flynt:
Undefined Mathematics |
Lawrence Weiner:
Indefinite Material Descriptions |
Sol LeWitt:
Visual Concepts |
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Robert Barry:
Indefinite Mental Descriptions |
Art & Language:
Invisible Pieces |
Joseph Kosuth, Art & Language:
Philosophy and Art Theory |
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Bernar Venet:
Science |
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Jenny Holzer:
Clichés |
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Zen |
Frederico Juan Carlos Loomis:
Words |
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Fritz Perls: |
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Link Collections |
Quote Collections (e.g.
Benjamin, Ayer, Kosuth) |
Georg Lichtenberg
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Theories as Aesthetic Objects
Pythagoras and the Music of the Spheres.
Irrational numbers.
Evolution (Cf. Peirce on Darwin).
Entropy (Boltzmann's suicide).
The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Space (Cf. Cubism and Duchamp).
Quantum Mechanics.
Special Relativity.
Gödel.
Chomsky and Structuralism.
The Big Bang.
Chaos, Non-linear Dynamics, Fractals.
Neural Nets, Emergence.
Artificial Life.
Literature on Concept Art and Conceptual Art
Alexander Alberro and Patricia Norvell, editors: Recording Conceptual Art. Early Interviews with Barry, Huebler, Kaltenbach, LeWitt, Morris, Oppenheim, Siegelaub, Smithson, and Weiner by Patricia Norvell. University of California Press, 2001.
Bruce Altshuler: Art by Instruction and the Pre-History of do it. In: Catalogue do it, Independent Curators International, 1998.ART-LANGUAGE. The Journal of Conceptual Art. Vol. 1 nos. 1-3 (May 1969-June 1970); vol. 2 no. 1 (February 1972). Edited by Terry Atkinson, David Bainbridge, Michael Baldwin, Harold Hurrell. Published by Art and Language Press.
Gregory Battcock (ed.): Idea Art. A Critical Anthology (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1973).
Thomas Dreher: "Konzeptuelle Kunst in Amerika und England 1963-76." Vortrag Karl-Franzens-Universitt, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Graz, 10.1.1996, auf der Basis der Dissertation Konzeptuelle Kunst in Amerika und England zwischen 1963 und 1976. Frankfurt a. M., 1992.Thomas Dreher: "Art & Language UK (1966-72): Maps and Models." In: Oliver Jahraus, Nina Ort and Benjamin Marius Schmidt (eds.): Beobachtungen des Unbeobachtbaren. Konzepte radikaler Theoriebildung in den Geisteswissenschaften. Weilerswist: Velbrck Verlag, 2000, pp. 169-198.
Henry Flynt: "Essay: Concept Art." (1961) In: La Monte Young (ed.): An Anthology, 1963.
Patrick Hughes and George Brecht: Vicious Circles and Infinity. A Panoply of Paradoxes. London: Jonathan Cape, 1975.
Joseph Kosuth: "Art After Philosophy I & II." Studio International, October/November 1969.
Lucy C. Lippard: Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972. New York: Praeger, 1973.
Robert C. Morgan: Conceptual Art: An American Perspective. (Foreword by Michael Kirby.) Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, 1994.Robert C. Morgan: Art Into Ideas. Essays On Conceptual Art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Edward A. Shanken: "Art in the Information Age: Technology and Conceptual Art." Leonardo 35, nr. 4 (2002), 433-38.