Conceptual Prints and Multiples
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.
1980s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Lithograph, Offset
1980s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Offset, Lithograph
2010s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Screen, Graphite, Pencil
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée, Archival Ink
1970s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
1970s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Paper, Etching
2010s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Digital, C Print
2010s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Metal
Early 2000s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Linocut
1960s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Offset
1970s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
2010s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
1980s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
1970s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Engraving
Early 2000s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Paper, Giclée
2010s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Giclée, Photographic Paper, Paper
2010s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color
2010s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
1970s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Etching, Aquatint
1980s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
1960s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Screen
1990s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
C Print
1980s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Screen, Etching
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Paper
1980s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
1970s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Paper, Screen
1960s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Screen
2010s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
1970s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
1970s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Screen
1970s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
1990s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Lithograph, Offset
1990s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Archival Paper, Color
1970s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Etching, Photogravure
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
1970s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
1970s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Screen
Early 2000s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Digital Pigment
1980s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Screen
1970s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Etching
2010s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Monoprint
1970s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
1970s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Etching
2010s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Monoprint
20th Century Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Offset
2010s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, C Print, Digital, G...
1980s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
2010s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Paper, Linocut
2010s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
1940s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Offset
2010s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
1990s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Archival Paper, Color
2010s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
2010s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
2010s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Archival Pigment
1980s Conceptual Prints and Multiples
Paper, Screen