conceptualism

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Related to conceptualism, minimalism, arte povera, and a peculiarly British landscape tradition, his quiet art seems as natural as walking and breathing.

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  1. noun Philosophy The doctrine, intermediate between nominalism and realism, that universals exist only within the mind and have no external or substantial reality.
  2. noun A school of abstract art or an artistic doctrine that is concerned with the intellectual engagement of the viewer through conveyance of an idea and negation of the importance of the art object itself.

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  • Bourgeois has an idiosyncratic aesthetic and has adapted and interpreted diverse ideas and styles from Europe and America, notably Surrealism, primitivism, psychoanalysis, conceptualism and feminism. —  Art Knowledge News
  • If your ears go back, like a frightened horse, at the word 'conceptualism' when applied to modern art, you may not be very pleased to know that this is a hot topic in landscape design at the moment. —  Spectator Live
  • Now the University of Guelph M.F.A. grad is on her way to fusing an amateur study of language with conceptualism. —  Canadian Art - Online
  • Collage works of kate hers interrogate the construction of ethnic and cultural narratives in landscape and analyze the mythological power of the Other while engaging tropes of appropriation, allegory, and conceptualism. —  A Birth Project
  • "Younger" has its frustrating moments, and most of them occur when the curators conform too completely to biennial habit, choosing art that follows standard conventions of late-late-late conceptualism.
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  1. = French conceptualisme = Spanish Portuguese conceptualismo, from New Latin *conceptualismus, from * conceptualis: see conceptual and -ism.
 

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/kənˈsɛptʃjuəlɪzm/
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