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Conceptual art

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Subject Source: Lcsh: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s / Luis Camnitzer, curator ; Jane Farver, curator ; Rachel Weiss, curator ; Boshoff W ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK ; Andre C ; Antin E ; Art & Language ; Beuys J ; Boetti A ; Broodthaers M ; Cage J ; Celant G ; Darboven H ; Debord G ; Deisler G ; Duchamp M ; Ferrari L ; Flynt H ; General Idea ; Gerchman R ; Gins M ; Goeritz M ; Holzer J ; Johns J ; Kabakov I ; Katz L ; Kocman JH ; Komar & Melamid ; Kosuth J ; Kruger B ; Latham J ; Lissitzky E ; Malevich K ; Mallarme S ; Manzoni P ; McLuhan M ; Ono Y ; Perneczky G ; Opalka R ; Rauschenberg R ; Rehfeldt R ; Wolf-Rehfeldt R ; Rodchenko A ; Siegelaub S ; Stepanova V ; Todorovic M ; Tot E ; Valoch J ; Warhol A ; Wolman G ; Young L ; Claus CF ; Arakawa ; Isou I ; Bann S ; Camintzer L ; Tupitsyn M ; Valoch J ; Oiticica H ; Weiner L ; Piper A ; Rosler M ; Snow M ; Lippard L ; Parr M ; Kelly M ; Baldessari J ; Siegelaub S ; Haack H ; Filko S ; Trasov V ; Knizak M ; Merz M ; Xu B ; LeWitt S ; Koraichi R ; Filko S ; Frampton H ; Parr M ; Cha T., 1999

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Identifier: CC-32761-34353
Scope and Contents In an introductory essay, Stephen Bann writes that "artists like Willem Boshoff and Frederic Bruly Bouabre clearly demonstrate the fertility of language-based investigations on African soil: Boshoff prepared for his work with dictionaries by lengthy exercises in concrete poetry." Okwui Enwezor contributes an essay "Where, What, Who, When: A Few Notes on "African" Conceptualism." Bann adds that "Willem Boshoff's conceptual practice is an elaborate effort dedicated to the study of ignorance, that is, pushing to the point of dissolution the idea that the world is knowable. Imprisoned by South African authorities for his refusal to serve in the military (the micrographic work, Kleinpen I, was produced in prison as a way to maintain mental equilibrium)... Boshoff finds in obscure and obsolete words a way to construct a map that denies sight but empowers knowledge...His study of linguistics and Wittgensteinian philosophy led him to explore other ways of rendering words into pulsating...
Dates: 1999

Museums by Artists / Bronson A.A., editor ; Gale, Peggy, editor ; Byars JL ; Broodthaers M ; Asher M ; Buren D ; Duchamp M ; Filliou R ; General Idea ; Haack H ; Kawara O ; Kosuth J ; Levine L ; Maciunas G ; Manzoni P ; N.E. Thing ; Oldenburg C ; Szeemann H ; Lissitzky E ; Boltanski C ; Distel H ; Gerz J ; Kirkeby P., 1983

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Identifier: CC-43266-45325
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The white and yellow striped cover was designed by Daniel Buren. It includes an original bound-in, paper multiple by James Lee Byars on pink tissue paper printed in an extremely small font. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983