Conceptual art
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Subject Source: Lcsh: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
G+D/01 - Elusive Artifacts / Bisson-Millet, Paule-Leon ; Acconci V ; General Idea ; Gette PA ; Gonzalez-Torres F ; Johnson R ; Komar & Melamid ; LeWitt S ; Oldenburg C ; Weiner L ; Moorman C ; Piper A ; Schneemann C ; Ono Y ; Anderson L ; Antin E ; Finley K., 2001
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Identifier: CC-38087-39978
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