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Conceptual art

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  1. art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns

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  2. Many of the works of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions

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  3. In Britain, the rise to prominence of the Young British Artists (YBAs) after the 1988 Freeze show, curated by Damien Hirst, and subsequent promotion of the group by the Saatchi Gallery during the 1990s, generated a media backlash, where the phrase "c

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  4. This method was fundamental to LeWitt's definition of Conceptual art, one of the first to appear in print

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  5. As Tony Godfrey has put it, after Joseph Kosuth's definition of art, conceptual art is an art which questions the very nature of what is understood as art

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