Paragraphs on Conceptual Art

LeWitt, S. (1967). Paragraphs on Conceptual Art. Artforum, 5(10), 79-83.

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1967

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• Abstraction in Art
  • A common failure is conceptual abstraction that is conceptually interesting but perceptually dead, or emotionally powerful but conceptually empty, without integration—a polarity LeWitt (1967) thematized in his "Paragraphs on Conceptual Art" and Rothko (1947) countered with his color-field commitment to direct emotional address
• Minimalism
  • … spatial presence of geometric form, material, and light. Every element—the metal, the form, the space it occupies—carries perceptual weight precisely because nothing extraneous has been included; LeWitt (1967) develops the related conceptualist position that the idea, not its execution, is what survives reduction.

    This sourceFoundational manifesto of conceptual art ("the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work"), repositioning abstraction as a conceptual rather than purely visual practice.

• Minimalism in Art
  • The concentration of compositional weight into the remaining elements through seriality, repetition, and precise proportion, the rule-based mode LeWitt (1967) theorized in "Paragraphs on Conceptual Art"

    This sourceFoundational manifesto of conceptual art ("the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work"), repositioning abstraction as a conceptual rather than purely visual practice.

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