1. Conceptual art Conceptual Art became a major art movement in the 1960s and 1970s. “Conceptual art is based on the concept that art may exist solely as an idea and not in the physical realm.” -http://wwar.com/masters/movements/conceptual_art.html Joseph Kosuth, Glass Words Material Described,1965

2. Artist Joseph Kosuth(1945 - Present) Nationality: American Yves Klein (1928 - 1962) Nationality: French Piero Manzoni(1933 - 1963) Nationality: Italian Richard Long(1945 - ) Nationality: British Yves Klein

4. The French artist Marcel Duchamp (Some call The father of conceptual art)paved the way for the conceptualists, providing them with examples of prototypically conceptual works the art for instance. The most famous of Duchamp's art was Fountain (1917), a standard urinal basin signed by the artist with the pseudonym "R.Mutt", and submitted for inclusion in the annual, un-juried exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists in New York it was rejected.

5. Conceptual art emerged as a movement during the 1960s. In part, it was a reaction against formalism as it was then articulated by the influential New York art critic Clement Greenberg. In 1961 the term "concept art," coined by the artist Henry Flynt in his article bearing the term as its title, appeared in a Fluxuspublication.Marcel Duchamp, Fountain ,1926

6. Joseph Kosuth One and Three Chairs, 1965(left) Du Phénomène de la bibliothèque, 2006,(right)

7. Yves Klein “Anthropologie de l’epoque bleue,” 1960 (left) RE 21, Bleu, 1960(right)

8. Piero Manzoni Achrome, 1958-1959(left) ,Pliers 1956-57(right)

9. Richard Long White Foot Circle 1986 (left), A line in Japan Mount Fuji 1979 (right)

11. http://www.abcgallery.com/D/duchamp/duchamp.html

12. http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/manzoni_piero.html

13. http://www.artnet.com/Galleries/Artists_detail.asp?gid=424045384&aid=9776Joseph Kosuth One and Three Saws 1965

14. Conceptual Art By : Maggie Bowen Richard Long Chalk Circle 1986