Conceptual Abstract Photography
CONCEPTUAL STYLE
In 1967, artist Sol LeWitt wrote that in “Conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work.” He was giving a name to an art movement that had emerged in the 1960s in which artists were less focused on their medium being something traditionally “artistic” and instead engaged in using any object, movement, form, action or place to express an idea.
LeWitt’s work was featured alongside an assemblage of notes, drawings and outlines by other artists in “Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art,” a groundbreaking show at New York City’s School of Visual Arts curated by Mel Bochner, another leading exponent of Conceptualism. Building on radical 20th-century statements, like Fountain (1917) by French artist Marcel Duchamp, Conceptual artists around Europe and North and South America were not interested in the commercial art scene and rather directly challenged its systems and values.
Stretching into the 1970s, this movement has also been called Post-Object art and Dematerialized art. Conceptual art reflected a larger era of social and political upheaval. Pieces associated with the style range from Roelof Louw’s Soul City (Pyramid of Oranges) (1967) — a work of installation art that sees fresh oranges stacked into a pyramid from which visitors are allowed to take one orange away — to On Kawara’s “Today” series, which saw the Japanese artist carefully painting a date in white acrylic on canvases consisting of a single color from 1966 to his death in 2014. Artists such as Ed Ruscha, who created the Twentysix Gasoline Stations book — a collection of photos of gas stations that is widely said to be the first modern artists’ book — made photography a major platform for Conceptual art, as did Bruce Nauman, who burned one of Ruscha's books and then photographed it for his own.
Conceptual art’s legacy of questioning artistic authorship, ownership and how to work with complex ideas of space and time had a significant influence on the decades of culture that followed, and it continues to inform art today.
The collection of Conceptual photography, paintings and sculptures on 1stDibs includes artworks by John Baldessari, Jenny Holzer, Lawrence Weiner, Joseph Kosuth and others.
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Style: Conceptual
X: Pleasant Dementia (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
X: Pleasant Dementia (Abstract Photography)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a Human Bra...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
IX: Genesi (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
IX: Genesi (Abstract photography)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a Human Brain.
It w...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
VI: Utter Blindness (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
VI: Utter Blindness (Abstract Photography)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a Human Brai...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
III. Deceit of language (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
III. Deceit of language (Abstract Photography)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a Human ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
$14,571 Sale Price
20% Off
II. Marvellous Unconsciousness (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
II. Marvellous Unconsciousness (Abstract photography)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
V: Dogmatic thinking (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
V: Dogmatic thinking (Abstract Photography)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a Human Bra...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
VIII: The Unselfconsciousness Of Eros (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
VIII: The Unselfconsciousness Of Eros (Abstract Photography)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichot...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Pigment
I. Anthropological Purity (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
I. Anthropological Purity (Abstract photography)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a Huma...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
$14,571 Sale Price
20% Off
X: Pleasant Dementia (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
X: Pleasant Dementia (Abstract Photography)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a Human Bra...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
VII: Istinto Primordiale
Located in London, GB
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a Human Brain.
It was created by combining fragments o...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Pigment
III. Deceit of language
Located in London, GB
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a Human Brain.
It was created by combining fragments o...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
Large Scale Color Photograph Ektacolor C Print Art Photo Typography Sorel Cohen
By Sorel Cohen
Located in Surfside, FL
SOREL COHEN (Canadian b. 1936 - )
Speak Silence- 1978
Ektacolor photograph and vinyl letter typography
Verso with gallery label for Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
41 inches x 53 inches
edition of 3
The original receipt included with this item is only available in the digital form. I only have the copy of it, not the original.
SOREL COHEN (Canadian b. 1936 - ) A graduate of Concordia University, Cohen has been a major figure on the Canadian photography scene for over thirty years. She has been invited as guest lecturer to many Canadian universities, and was awarded the Canada Council’s prestigious Duke and Duchess of York Prize in Photography (1988). Her master’s thesis examined feminist art in the 1970s, while her art practice, which is largely autobiographical, weaves original links conceptual art, photography, painting and film. Cohen creates works that directly reference the historical and social context of the artist, especially through depictions of gender and the body. She has participated in numerous group shows both in Canada and abroad (France, Germany, Mexico, the United Kingdom, etc.) and has had solo exhibitions in major Canadian cities from Halifax to Vancouver, as well as in New York, Marseilles, and Tempe, Arizona. ) She was included in the show She Photographs which presented thirty photographers, mostly Canadian, a few American, who explore the portrait or the self-portrait, nudes, still-life, landscape. Artists included Sarah Anne Johnson...
Category
1970s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
A Conceptually Alternative Cyanotype, "Memory Trace"
Located in San Diego, CA
A one of a kind 20x11.25 Conceptually Alternative Cyanotype executed on Hahnemuhle Sumi-E Paper by artist Annalise Neil. A certificate of authenticity will be provided upon its purch...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Film
A Traditional Bleached Watercolor Cyanotype on Wood Panel, "Now It Will Appear"
Located in San Diego, CA
A 12 "x 12" square and a 8" diameter circle diptych. It is a one of a kind Traditional Bleached Watercolor Cyanotype executed on Canson Montval and Hahnemuhle Sumi-E Paper Mounted o...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Ritual Sacrifice (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
Ritual Sacrifice (Abstract Photography)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper — Unframed.
Edition 6 + 2 AP
This work is part of the "Humanistic Reciprocity". This se...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Pigment
Desire of the Primordial Real (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
Desire of the Primordial Real (Abstract Photography)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper — Unframed.
Edition 6 + 2 AP
This work is part of the "Humanistic Reciproc...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Pigment
X: Pleasant Dementia (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
X: Pleasant Dementia (Abstract Photography)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a Human Bra...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
V: Dogmatic thinking (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
V: Dogmatic thinking (Abstract Photography)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a Human Bra...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
VI: Utter Blindness (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
VI: Utter Blindness (Abstract Photography)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a Human Brai...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
V: Dogmatic thinking (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
V: Dogmatic thinking (Abstract Painting)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a Human Brain...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
I. Anthropological Purity (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
I. Anthropological Purity (Abstract photography)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a Huma...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
VII: Istinto Primordiale (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
VII: Istinto Primordiale (Abstract photography)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a Human...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
III. Deceit of language (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
III. Deceit of language (Abstract Photography)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a Human ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
IV: Nice (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
IV: Nice (Abstract Photography)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a Human Brain.
It was ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
II. Marvellous Unconsciousness (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
II. Marvellous Unconsciousness (Abstract photography)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
IX: Genesi (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
IX: Genesi (Abstract photography)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a Human Brain.
It w...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
VII: Istinto Primordiale (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a Human Brain.
It was created by combining fragments o...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
III. Deceit of language (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a Human Brain.
It was created by combining fragments o...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
V: Dogmatic thinking
Located in London, GB
Digital C-Type print on Archival Pigment Print. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a Human Brain.
It was created by combining fragments of pho...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Pigment
VI: Utter Blindness
Located in London, GB
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a Human Brain.
It was created by combining fragments o...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
Manhattan Skyscraper Abstract Multiple Exposure, Kali, Abstract Photography
Located in Miami, FL
This trailblazing in-camera multiple exposures of New York buildings with the moon was done in 1972. It's not just an image that pushes the boundaries of visual imagery but it is a t...
Category
1970s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
How the Rich Make Street Art - Palm Beach 5
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Robert Funk’s photographs of elaborate landscaping redefine what Street Art is. Landscaping art aesthetically is the opposite of the generally accepted meaning of Graffiti Street Art...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Conceptual abstract photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Conceptual abstract photography available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add abstract photography created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, red, green and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Gianfranco Pezzot, Kojun, Jeff Becker, and Dennis Balk. Frequently made by artists working with Paper, and C Print and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Conceptual abstract photography, so small editions measuring 3.55 inches across are also available. Prices for abstract photography made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $45 and tops out at $35,000, while the average work sells for $6,187.
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