Post-conceptual art

Post-conceptual, postconceptual, post-conceptualism or postconceptualism is an art theory that builds upon the legacy of conceptual art in contemporary art, where the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work takes some precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns.[1] The term first came into art school parlance through the influence of John Baldessari at the California Institute of the Arts in the early 1970s. The writer Eldritch Priest, specifically ties John Baldessari's piece Throwing four balls in the air to get a square (best of 36 tries) from 1973 (in which the artist attempted to do just that, photographing the results, and eventually selecting the best out of 36 tries, with 36 being the determining number as that is the standard number of shots on a roll of 35mm film) as an early example of post-conceptual art.[2] It is now often connected to generative art and digital art production.[3]

  1. ^ Osborne, Peter (2002). Conceptual art. London: Phaidon. p. 28. ISBN 0-7148-3930-2. OCLC 49551597.
  2. ^ Priest, Eldritch (2013). Boring formless nonsense : experimental music and the aesthetics of failure. New York. p. 5. ISBN 978-1-4411-2408-1. OCLC 828736623.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ^ Osborne 2013, p. 125–131.