Conceptual Art "In Conceptual Art the idea of concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art" -Sol Lewitt (From "Paragraphs on Conceptual Art" 1967) Conceptual art is a modern art practice in which the idea or ideas that a …showed first 75 words of 1451 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1451 total…and sometimes invisible qualities of the work, as well as the inability to document much of what was being produced, led to it's untimely demise at the beginning of the 1980's, when art once again began to take an interest in visual subject matter. One could say that the lasting legacy of conceptual art was the significance that was placed of the idea in art, and the means with which that idea could be communicated.