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Presenting an unprecedented range of material, Global Conceptualism:
Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s challenges the canonical perception that conceptual art was simply one movement which spread internationally and acknowledges the important local circumstances which gave birth to conceptualist art in regions around the world.
This book traces the history of this key development in 20th-century art which was marked by a shift from a consideration of the object to that of the idea.
The emergence of conceptualist art, which coincided with broadly destabilizing sociological and technological trends as the political, economic, and social landscapes of large parts of the world underwent significant, often traumatic, transition, occurred in two relatively distinct waves of activity: the first, from the late 1950’s to around 1973, and the second from the mid-1970’s to the end of the '80’s.
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