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Conceptual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Lcsh: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 1027 Collections and/or Records:

point d'ironie: personnes. No.50/Dec / Christian Boltanski., 2010

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Identifier: CC-52131-73250
Scope and Contents

This issue consists of color photographs taken by Didier Plowy of Boltanski's installation conceived for Monumenta 2010 at Paris' Grand Palais in February 2010. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

point d'ironie: The Boy from Mars/Hybrid Muscle - Welcome to Reality Park. No.33/Apr / Philippe Parreno., 2004

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Identifier: CC-42650-44668
Scope and Contents

This issue of Point d'Ironie juxtaposes two recent images by Parreno: "The Boy from Mars/Hybrid Muscle" with the collaboration of Francois Roche and "Welcome to Reality Park" a gateway to an amusement park. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Post-Partum Document / Kelly, Mary., 1999

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Identifier: CC-32573-34154
Scope and Contents The first exhibition of this six part work was in the 1970's. The book is a reprinting of Kelly's conceptual feminist work that was typed in lowercase letters. According to Lucy Lippard, the general theme of the work is "removal, distancing, the weaning process that characterizes socialization and all relationships... and the subject's awareness of the ideologies that rule her experiences." As Kelly herself writes in 1973 in the opening statement, "In the Post-Partem Document, I am trying to show the reciprocity of the process of socialization in the first few years of life. It is not only the infant whose future personality is formed at this crucial moment, but also the mother whose 'feminine psychology' is sealed by the sexual division of labor in childcare."Rachek Warriner (internet); Kelly has made works that examine complicated social issues such as the ramifications of war, and the politics of how our identities are constructed. In Post Partum Document, she was engaging in a...
Dates: 1999

Postsachen (1968-1972) / Gerz, Jochen., 1972

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Identifier: CC-27273-27829
Scope and Contents There are several objects in this box which is like a one person "Assembling." One is an empty plastic bag with a three pages of documentation stapled to it. Gerz relates that he sent such empty plastic bags to friends, strangers from the Paris phone book and exhibition visitors at international art galleries. They were instructed to place personal old relics in the bags. Three hundred filled plastic bags were returned and sealed by Gerz who then deposited them in the construction foundation of the new Montparnasse Tower in Paris which was then covered by concrete. Since the bags were inaccessible, and no material trace of them remained, Gerz wrote that "from the idea and diverse initiatives which their realization made necessary as well as the impressions which I received during this time, I retain a memory more and more contradictory. The consequences which arise from this each day seem by now more important than the idea itself." There are duplicate, printed plastic envelopes...
Dates: 1972

Produzione / Pedrotti., 1969

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Identifier: CC-41344-43327
Scope and Contents

The word "produzione" is rubberstamped in red ink to the right centre edge of all the pages except one in which an entire column of the word is rubberstamped along the right edge. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Programa Para La Exposicion De Secuencias / Valcarcel Medina, Isidoro., 1968

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Identifier: CC-47968-68991
Scope and Contents

Constellations printed on some of the pages describe colors or structures of a picture. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Projects Class / Anonymous; Barry R; Dibbets J; Weiner L; Huebler D; N.E. Thing; Kosuth J; Bochner M; Smithson R; Graham D; LeWitt S; Lippard L; Byars JL., 1969

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Identifier: CC-43856-45954
Scope and Contents

Important conceptual art piece that gives instructions by each artist to a Projects Class. Byars gave his instructions in microscopic text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Projeto: White x White x White. No.2 / Moacy Cirne., 1969

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Identifier: CC-03838-3911
Scope and Contents

This example of a process/poem deals with folding of white heavy weight paper sheets in space. The envelope is addressed to Herman De Vrries and the documentation is printed on the mailing envelope. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Proposal: A Shaded Path (2) , 1989

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Identifier: CC-12484-12711
Scope and Contents

This is a proposal for a garden path of bricks stamped with names of trees taken from Sir William Temple's book "Gardens in Virgil's Time," viz., 'The trees were the elm, the pine, the lime-tree, and the Platanus, or plame-tree, whose leaf and shade, of all others, was the most in request...' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Proposal for Richard and Florence Ingelby...Art/Basel/Miami Beach 3rd-6th December 2009 / Peter Liversidge., 2009

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Identifier: CC-50451-71519
Scope and Contents

The proposal is printed on one side and the city seal of Miami (incorporated 1896) on the other. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

Proposal for Richard and Florence Ingelby...Art/Basel/Miami Beach 3rd-6th December 2009 / Peter Liversidge., 2009

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Identifier: CC-50451-71519
Scope and Contents

The proposal is printed on one side and the city seal of Miami (incorporated 1896) on the other. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

Proposal: Herman De Vries; Ulysses Carrion / Leiber, Steven., 2002

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Identifier: CC-41687-43679
Scope and Contents

This catalogue features the bookworks of Herman De Vries and the emphemeral material of Ulysses Carrion. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Proposal: JH Kocman / Leiber, Steven ; Gibbs M., 2002

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Identifier: CC-42136-44138
Scope and Contents

This catalogue features the books and drawings of JH Kocman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002