Movements in Modern Art: Conceptual Art

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Conceptual art set out to challenge two key assumptions normally associated with art - the production of objects to look at and the act of contemplative looking itself. This accessible introduction explores the reasons why the new avant-ggarde that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s felt compelled to produce such critical work and examines the extent to which this movement may be regarded as the turning point between the modernist past of painting and the postmodernist present of the contemporary art world.