Art that emerged in the late 1960s, emphasizing ideas and theoretical practices rather than the creation of visual forms. In 1967, the artist Sol LeWitt gave the new genre its name in his essay “Parag [..]

Conceptual art is art for which the idea (or concept) behind the work is more important than the finished art object. It emerged as an art movement in the 1960s and the term usually refers to art made [..]

An art form made popular in the mid 1960s through the 1970s, it has been described as a "document of the artist's thinking". The term became an all-embracing term for art forms that fit [..]

In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and th [..]

An art form in which the underlying idea or concept and the process by which it is achieved are more important than any tangible product.

all media. Conceptual art refers to art created primarily for the ideas and concepts involved instead of aesthetic pleasure.

The physical embodiment of a work of conceptual art can be a sentence on a piece of paper or a polished section of the floor. The actual object may even be missing altogether. The important thing is t [..]

Conceptual Art In basic terms, the idea or concept behind a work of art takes precedent over its material realisation. First coined in the 1960s, Conceptual art has come to embrace a range of practices – including art projects that remain as written statements or instructions for others to carry out – where the form that the work takes is determine [..]

An art form in which the artist's intent is to convey a concept rather than to create an art object.

Traced to the work of Marcel Duchamp but not codified until the 1960s, Conceptual art is a general term for art that emphasizes ideas over form. The finished product may even be physically transient, [..]

Art which is intended to communicate an idea or concept where the concept or idea and process is of greater importance than any tangible result and therefore does not have necessarily involve the crea [..]

Art that exists where the concept or idea is more important that the actual work itself, if such a work even exists.

Art in which the idea is more important than the finished product or visual form. It emerged in the 1960s and was often concerned with the nature of art itself and the use of language.

A genre of art in which the transmission of ideas is more important than the creation of an art object