Marcel Duchamp
I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.
Damián Ortega http://whitecube.com/artists/damin_ortega/ Preserved 2012 Dimensions variable Bike, salt and spotlights Photo: Todd-White Art Photography
Controller of the Universe 2007 112 3/16 x 159 7/16 x 179 1/8 in. (285 x 405 x 455 cm) Found tools and wire http://staff.um.edu.mt/gmal1/Photography%20%E2%80%93%20A%20Critical%20Introduction%20%E 2%80%93%20Alexandra%20Pace.pdf
http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/conceptual-art
http://www.theartstory.org/movement-conceptual-art-artworks.htm#pnt_3 One and Three Chairs (1965)
Artist: Joseph Kosuth
Artwork description & Analysis: A physical chair sits between a scale photograph of a chair and a printed definition of the word "chair." Emblematic of Conceptual art, One and Three Chairs makes people question what constitutes the "chair" - the physical object, the idea, the photograph, or a combination of all three. Joseph Kosuth once wrote, "The art I call conceptual is such because it is based on an inquiry into the nature of art. Thus, it is...a thinking out of all the implications, of all aspects of the concept 'art.'" One and Three Chairsdenies the hierarchical distinction between an object and a representation, just as it implies a conceptual work of art can be object or representation in its various forms. This work harks back to and also extends the kind of inquiry into the presumed priority of object over representation that had been earlier proposed by the Surrealist Rene Magritte in his Treachery of Images (1928-9), with its image of a pipe over the inscription "Ceci n'est pas un pipe" (This is not a pipe).
Wood folding chair, mounted photograph of a chair, and photographic enlargement of a dictionary definition of "chair" - The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Fountain (1917)
Artist: Marcel Duchamp
Artwork description & Analysis: The most notorious of the readymades, Fountain was submitted to the 1917 Society of Independent Artists under the pseudonym R. Mutt. The initial R stood for Richard, French slang for "moneybags" whereas Mutt referred to JL Mott Ironworks, the New York-based company, which manufactured the porcelain urinal. After the work had been rejected by the Society on the grounds that it was immoral, critics who championed it disputed this claim, arguing that an object was invested with new significance when selected by an artist for display. Testing the limits of what constitutes a work of art, Fountain staked new grounds. What started off as an elaborate prank designed to poke fun at American avant-garde art, proved to be one of most influential artworks of the 20th century.
Urinal - Philadelphia Museum of Art
IDEAS http://www.top13.net/land-artworks-andy-goldsworthy/ Man Arranges Leaves, Sticks, And Stones To Create Magical Land Artworks http://www.alexameade.com/index
Racism
Yin Yang
walking the cloud
snow in autumn
https://photography.tutsplus.com/articles/70-imaginative-examples-of-conceptual-photography-- photo-5977