February 2024
Intermediate to advanced
710 pages
30h 6m
English
During the socially turbulent 1960s, artists rethought the roles photographers, photographs, and viewers can occupy in society. Their practice shifted from Modernistic formalism that emphasized compositional and tonal elements of the straight print to a conceptual approach in which ideas took precedence over how subjects were depicted. By rejecting the premise that art had to have a tangible and aesthetic form, conceptual artists argued that process was equally valid as an artistic statement. Also, conceptual art offered a way to circumvent commercialization and ...
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