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Conceptual Art

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
Leslie Fry_After van der Weyden_2020_Ink on Embroidered Linen_Portraiture

Leslie Fry_After van der Weyden_2020_Ink on Embroidered Linen_Portraiture

Located in Darien, CT

Leslie's public projects respond to site, history and the body. Figures are female or hermaphroditic, of imaginary descent, often melded with animal, architecture and plant forms. I ...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Linen, Thread, Ink

Christo, Corridor Store Front (Monuments) - Signed Collage
Christo, Corridor Store Front (Monuments) - Signed Collage

Christo, Corridor Store Front (Monuments) - Signed Collage

By Christo

Located in Hamburg, DE

Christo (American-Bulgarian, b. 1935) Corridor Store Front (from Monuments), 1968 Medium: Collage (two-part screenprint on Bristol board, with mounted transparent plastic sheet, with...

Category

19th Century Conceptual Art

Materials

Plastic, Board, Screen

Birds, Cibachrome Photograph Print, Signed Conceptual Art
Birds, Cibachrome Photograph Print, Signed Conceptual Art

Birds, Cibachrome Photograph Print, Signed Conceptual Art

By Brenda Zlamany

Located in Surfside, FL

This is a proof print. signed and marked bat (for bon a tirer or good to print) This is a single print from 1998 Birds. Suite of eight Cibachromes. Edition of fifteen. 10″ × 10″ (sheet size). Muse [X] Editions. Taxidermy Bird. Brenda Zlamany has shown widely in the United States and Europe. Her work has been reproduced in The New York Times Magazine, Artforum, Flashart, Art in America, Art and Antiques, and The New Yorker. She was born in New York City in 1959. 1976 - 77 Yale College Before College Program, New Haven, Conn. 1981 Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. (BA) Stanley William Hayter s Atelier 17, Paris. Tyler School of Art, Rome. 1984 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine. Select Museums: Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei; the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution; the National Museum, Gdansk; Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent. Select Collections: Cincinnati Art Museum; Deutsche Bank; the Museum of Modern Art, Houston; the Neuberger Museum of Art; the Virginia Museum of Fine Art; the World Bank; the Yale University Art Gallery. Select Commissions the World Bank, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center the New York Times Magazine (Marian Anderson for an article by Jessye Norman, Osama bin Laden for the September 11, 2005, cover, Jeffrey Dahmer) Select Grants and Awards: Fulbright Fellowship (2011), Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant (2006–07), New York Foundation for the Arts Artists’ Fellowship in Painting (1994). MacDowell Colony (1995, 1992, 1986) Yaddo (1997). For many years, Brenda Zlamany has painted portraits of other artists, including Chuck Close, Alex Katz, and David Hockney. She has also been a subject for them; as she puts it, “we are professional posers.” Recently, however, she has worked to paint portraits of those whose gaze is more internal—monks and nomads in Tibet, aboriginal people in Taiwan—creating large bodies of portraits that investigate the limits of the genre. She returned, with her daughter, to Hockney’s studio in 2014, not only to sit for him but to paint him once again. Her practice involves the long sittings and intense looking required of traditional portrait-making. Muse X Editions. An (now defunct) LA based innovative publisher of limited-edition prints, Muse X has launched its first group of prints and is just beginning to make itself known to artists, curators, dealers and collectors. Among works just off the press are otherworldly landscapes by Barbara Kasten and Oliver Wasow, a sizzling sunset by Peter Alexander, abstract compositions by Pauline Stella Sanchez and Jennifer Steinkamp...

Category

1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print

Moon over a Mayo Landscape - Mysterious Moonlit Photograph, Framed (or unframed)
Moon over a Mayo Landscape - Mysterious Moonlit Photograph, Framed (or unframed)

Moon over a Mayo Landscape - Mysterious Moonlit Photograph, Framed (or unframed)

By Paul Kenny

Located in London, GB

A moon shrouded in shadows emits a mystical glow, illuminating an enigmatic landscape… A mysterious moonlit scene, evoking depth and tranquility amidst shadowy green hues…. An abstr...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment

Pine Cut Down C, by Alan Turner
Pine Cut Down C, by Alan Turner

Pine Cut Down C, by Alan Turner

By Alan Turner

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Alan Turner Title: Pine Cut Down C Year: 1981 Medium: Lithograph, Signed and Numbered in Pencil Edition: 40 Paper Size: 22 x 17 inches [55.88 x 43.18...

Category

1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Lithograph

Joy. Oil on cardboard, 47. 5 x 57 cm
Joy. Oil on cardboard, 47. 5 x 57 cm

Joy. Oil on cardboard, 47. 5 x 57 cm

Located in Riga, LV

Joy. Oil on cardboard, 47.5x57 cm Victor Karnauh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monument designer, graduate of La...

Category

1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Cosmic Gal -  Figurative Painting- Spacescape Art By Marc Zimmerman
Cosmic Gal -  Figurative Painting- Spacescape Art By Marc Zimmerman

Cosmic Gal - Figurative Painting- Spacescape Art By Marc Zimmerman

Located in Carmel, CA

The Goddess creates from within her own creative imagination .Universes appear as her mudra engenders planets and stars. Cosmic Gal - Figurative Painting- Spacescape Art By Marc Zi...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Oil

Sienna Vermeer, Pop Art Lithograph by George Deem
Sienna Vermeer, Pop Art Lithograph by George Deem

Sienna Vermeer, Pop Art Lithograph by George Deem

By George Deem

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: George Deem Title: Sienna Vermeer Year: 1978 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 300, AP 40 Image Size: 19 x 21 inches Paper Size: 22 in. x 30 in. (55...

Category

1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Lithograph

Paintbrushes (Orange Red and Green) IV
Paintbrushes (Orange Red and Green) IV

Paintbrushes (Orange Red and Green) IV

By Fernandez Arman

Located in Long Island City, NY

An accumulation sculpture of paintbrushes by the great accumulator sculptor, Arman. This work features 13 paintbrushes with various shades of paint in oranges, greens, and reds again...

Category

1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

Resin, Paint

Hydra, Pop Art Serigraph by Arman

Hydra, Pop Art Serigraph by Arman

By Arman

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Arman, French (1929 - 2005) Title: Hydra Year: 1979 Medium: Serigraph on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 150 Size: 30 in. x 22 in. (76.2 cm x 55.88 cm)

Category

1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Screen

Like in a Dream, Pop Art Serigraph by Arman
Like in a Dream, Pop Art Serigraph by Arman

Like in a Dream, Pop Art Serigraph by Arman

By Arman

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Arman, French (1929 - 2005) Title: Like in a Dream Year: 1979 Medium: Silkscreen on Arches, Signed and numbered in Pencil Edition: 150, AP 30 Size: 30 in. x 22 in. (76....

Category

1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Screen

Viola d'Amour, Signed Pop Art Screenprint by Arman
Viola d'Amour, Signed Pop Art Screenprint by Arman

Viola d'Amour, Signed Pop Art Screenprint by Arman

By Arman

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Arman Title: Viola d'Amour Year: 1978 Medium: Silkscreen on Arches, Signed and Numbered in Pencil Edition: 150, AP 30 Paper Size: 30 in. x 22 in. (76.2 cm x 55.88 cm) Printer...

Category

1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Screen

George Washington, Lithograph by George Deem
George Washington, Lithograph by George Deem

George Washington, Lithograph by George Deem

By George Deem

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: George Deem, American (1932 - 2008) Title: George Washington, George Washington Year: 1978 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 300; AP 30 Image Size: ...

Category

1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Lithograph

Limiting Beliefs
Limiting Beliefs

Limiting Beliefs

Located in Zofingen, AG

How often are we held back from deciding by the many limiting beliefs and frameworks instilled in us from birth by our immediate environment and society? These limiting beliefs are a...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Pine Cut Down B, by Alan Turner
Pine Cut Down B, by Alan Turner

Pine Cut Down B, by Alan Turner

By Alan Turner

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Alan Turner Title: Pine Cut Down B Year: 1981 Medium: Lithograph, Signed and Numbered in Pencil Edition: 40 Paper Size: 22 x 17 inches [55.88 x 43.18...

Category

1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Lithograph

Singularity
Singularity

Singularity

Located in Edinburgh, GB

Singularity. Natalia Pustovit. Fhenomenal artwork concept Singularity is the point at which a mathematical function tends to infinity. A woman is that point, which is the conduc...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Phish Tour Print Nashville Tennessee by Justin Helton on Rainbow Foil Art Paper
Phish Tour Print Nashville Tennessee by Justin Helton on Rainbow Foil Art Paper

Phish Tour Print Nashville Tennessee by Justin Helton on Rainbow Foil Art Paper

Located in Draper, UT

Justin Helton is a graphic designer/illustrator specializing in design for the music industry. He is probably best known for his excellent gig posters, which usually comprise of quite detailed illustrations, beautiful typesetting and are all printed by hand. Justin works from Knoxville, Tennessee, creating work for bands such as Phish, The Avett Brothers...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Foil

Sheep Portfolio of 7 Conceptual Etchings and Screenprints by Menashe Kadishman
Sheep Portfolio of 7 Conceptual Etchings and Screenprints by Menashe Kadishman

Sheep Portfolio of 7 Conceptual Etchings and Screenprints by Menashe Kadishman

By Menashe Kadishman

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Menashe Kadishman, Israeli (1932 - 2015) Title: Sheep Portfolio Year: 1981 Medium: Portfolio of 7 Screenprints with Etching, each signed in pencil Edition: 65, AP 5 Size of Each: 33.5 x 31 in. (85.09 x 78.74 cm) Printed by Jerusalem Print...

Category

1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Etching, Screen

Matthew Barney, Cremaster 5: Her Giant, 1997
Matthew Barney, Cremaster 5: Her Giant, 1997

Matthew Barney, Cremaster 5: Her Giant, 1997

By Matthew Barney

Located in Madrid, MD

Matthew Barney, Cremaster 5: Her Giant, 1997 C-print mounted under Plexiglas Signed and dated by the artist, with artist’s stamp on verso Edition: 6 of 6 An iconic work by American ...

Category

1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

Silicone, Synthetic Resin

Palm Springs 7

Palm Springs 7

By Vanessa Marsh

Located in Sante Fe, NM

Further to Fly is a series of Wet Plate Collodion Photograms that continues in my practice of using drawings on mylar layered with light-sensitive materials in the darkroom to create...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Photogram

Palm Springs 1

Palm Springs 1

By Vanessa Marsh

Located in Sante Fe, NM

Further to Fly is a series of Wet Plate Collodion Photograms that continues in my practice of using drawings on mylar layered with light-sensitive materials in the darkroom to create...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Photogram

Book and Pen, Abstract Lithograph by Marshall Borris
Book and Pen, Abstract Lithograph by Marshall Borris

Book and Pen, Abstract Lithograph by Marshall Borris

By Marshall Borris

Located in Long Island City, NY

Book and Pen Marshall Borris, American Date: circa 1979 Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 275 Size: 24 x 34 in. (60.96 x 86.36 cm)

Category

1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Lithograph

Peking, Silkscreen by Kimura

Peking, Silkscreen by Kimura

By Risaburo Kimura

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Risaburo Kimura, Japanese (1924 - ) Title: Peking Year: 1973 Medium: Silkscreen on BFK Rives, Signed, titled and numbered in pencil Edition: 250, AP 20 Size: 30 in. x 22 in. ...

Category

1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Screen

Adelphi, Abstract Lithograph on Canvas by Joe Tilson
Adelphi, Abstract Lithograph on Canvas by Joe Tilson

Adelphi, Abstract Lithograph on Canvas by Joe Tilson

By Joe Tilson

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Joe Tilson Title: Adelphi Year: 1980 Medium: Lithograph and Collage on Canvas, Signed and Numbered in Pencil Edition: 92/150 Paper Size: 29 x 24.5 inches

Category

1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Lithograph

Christo, 5600 Cubicmeter Package (Monuments) - Signed Print
Christo, 5600 Cubicmeter Package (Monuments) - Signed Print

Christo, 5600 Cubicmeter Package (Monuments) - Signed Print

By Christo

Located in Hamburg, DE

Christo (American-Bulgarian, b. 1935) 5600 Cubicmeter Package (from Monuments), 1968 Medium: Offset lithograph on Bristol board Dimensions: 70 × 54.5 cm (27 3/5 × 21 1/2 in) Edition ...

Category

19th Century Conceptual Art

Materials

Offset

China Night, Surrealist Lithograph by Terry Allen
China Night, Surrealist Lithograph by Terry Allen

China Night, Surrealist Lithograph by Terry Allen

By Terry Allen

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Terry Allen, American (1943 - ) Title: China Night Year: 1985 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 75 Size: 23 x 30 in. (58.42 x 76.2 cm)

Category

1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Lithograph

Vintage Washing Board in Custom made Vinyl Slipcover: 'Scrubbed Clean'
Vintage Washing Board in Custom made Vinyl Slipcover: 'Scrubbed Clean'

Vintage Washing Board in Custom made Vinyl Slipcover: 'Scrubbed Clean'

Located in New York, NY

“My art explores the similarity between seemingly disparate cultures through the lens of my African American ancestry. I examine my family’s plight shaped by the history of racism an...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Glass, Wood, Mixed Media

Birds, Cibachrome Photograph Print, Signed Conceptual Art
Birds, Cibachrome Photograph Print, Signed Conceptual Art

Birds, Cibachrome Photograph Print, Signed Conceptual Art

By Brenda Zlamany

Located in Surfside, FL

This is a proof print. signed and marked bat (for bon a tirer or good to print) This is a single print from 1998 Birds. Suite of eight Cibachromes. Edition of fifteen. 10″ × 10″ (sheet size). Muse [X] Editions. Taxidermy Bird. Brenda Zlamany has shown widely in the United States and Europe. Her work has been reproduced in The New York Times Magazine, Artforum, Flashart, Art in America, Art and Antiques, and The New Yorker. She was born in New York City in 1959. 1976 - 77 Yale College Before College Program, New Haven, Conn. 1981 Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. (BA) Stanley William Hayter s Atelier 17, Paris. Tyler School of Art, Rome. 1984 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine. Select Museums: Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei; the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution; the National Museum, Gdansk; Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent. Select Collections: Cincinnati Art Museum; Deutsche Bank; the Museum of Modern Art, Houston; the Neuberger Museum of Art; the Virginia Museum of Fine Art; the World Bank; the Yale University Art Gallery. Select Commissions the World Bank, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center the New York Times Magazine (Marian Anderson for an article by Jessye Norman, Osama bin Laden for the September 11, 2005, cover, Jeffrey Dahmer) Select Grants and Awards: Fulbright Fellowship (2011), Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant (2006–07), New York Foundation for the Arts Artists’ Fellowship in Painting (1994). MacDowell Colony (1995, 1992, 1986) Yaddo (1997). For many years, Brenda Zlamany has painted portraits of other artists, including Chuck Close, Alex Katz, and David Hockney. She has also been a subject for them; as she puts it, “we are professional posers.” Recently, however, she has worked to paint portraits of those whose gaze is more internal—monks and nomads in Tibet, aboriginal people in Taiwan—creating large bodies of portraits that investigate the limits of the genre. She returned, with her daughter, to Hockney’s studio in 2014, not only to sit for him but to paint him once again. Her practice involves the long sittings and intense looking required of traditional portrait-making. Muse X Editions. An (now defunct) LA based innovative publisher of limited-edition prints, Muse X has launched its first group of prints and is just beginning to make itself known to artists, curators, dealers and collectors. Among works just off the press are otherworldly landscapes by Barbara Kasten and Oliver Wasow...

Category

1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print

Survival Pencils
Survival Pencils

Survival Pencils

By Jenny Holzer

Located in Toronto, Ontario

Jenny Holzer's menacing "Truisms" first appeared in 1983 when the artist was invited to participate in a group show exploring the themes and dialogue from George Orwell's "1984". O...

Category

1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

Pencil

Conceptual art for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Conceptual art 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 art created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, orange, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Reinhard Görner, Kojun, Jose Sierra, and xulong zhang. Frequently made by artists working with Paper, and Paint 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 art, so small editions measuring 1 inches across are also available. Prices for art 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 $500,000, while the average work sells for $2,465.