Conceptual art

Also concept art, idea art, conceptualism.

Artists, collectives

Only those with pages on Monoskop wiki are listed.

• Group 143
• Vladimír Ambroz
• Eleanor Antin
• Art & Language
• Art & Project
• John Baldessari
• Peter Bartoš
• László Beke
• Włodzimierz Borowski
• Bosch+Bosch
• Marcel Broodthaers
• Luis Camnitzer
• Ulises Carrión
• Rosemarie Castoro
• Hanne Darboven
• Agnes Denes
• Braco Dimitrijević
• Goran Đorđević
• Miklós Erdély
• Stano Filko
• Konrad Fischer
• Andrea Fraser
• Galeria Akumulatory 2
• Galerie MTL
• General Idea
• Gorgona
• Hans Haacke
• Douglas Huebler
• Mary Kelly
• J.H. Kocman
• Kôd Group
• Július Koller
• Marek Konieczny
• Joseph Kosuth
• Sol LeWitt
• Lucy R. Lippard
• Lee Lozano
• Tom Marioni
• Dóra Maurer
• Moscow Conceptualists
• New Tendencies
• Lorraine O'Grady
• OHO
• Anna Oppermann
• Ewa Partum
• Paula Cooper Gallery
• Adrian Piper
• Sarkis Zabunyan
• Seth Siegelaub
• Mladen Stilinović
• Mierle Laderman Ukeles
• Jiří Valoch
• Franz Erhard Walther
• Lawrence Weiner

Artist's books, magazines, writings

Essays

• Henry Flynt, "Concept Art", in An Anthology of Chance Operations, eds. La Monte Young and Jackson Mac Law, New York, self-published, 1963; revised in 2nd ed., New York: H. Friedrich, 1970. [1] [2]
• Sol LeWitt, "Paragraphs on Conceptual Art", Artforum, Jun 1967, pp 79-83.
• Sol LeWitt, "Sentences on Conceptual Art", 0-9, New York, 1969; repr. in Art-Language, UK, May 1969.

Magazines, periodicals

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  Art-Language, 1969-78

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  The Fox, 1975-76, PDFs

• Art-Language, 1969-78. First issue carried the subtitle The Journal of Conceptual Art. Covers, [3], [4].
• The Fox, eds. Art & Language, New York, 1975-76. CCIndex.
• Vision, ed. Tom Marioni, San Francisco: Crown Point Press, 1975-81. Issue 1.
• Red-herring, New York: C.I.F., 1977-78. CCIndex.

Artist's books, catalogues

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  Xerox Book, 1968, Log, PDF

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  Sol LeWitt, Four Basic Kinds of Straight Lines, 1969, Log, PDF

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  Avalanche 4: Conceptual Art, 1972

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  Blurting in A & L [Art & Language], 1973, Log, HTML

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  Live In Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form, 1969, PDF

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  Information, 1970. Exhibition

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  Software, 1970, Log, PDF

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  Documenta 5, 1972, Log, PDF/a, PDF/b

Artist's books and catalogues

• Seth Siegelaub, John W. Wendler (eds.), Xerox Book, New York, 1968, 190 pp. (English)
• Sol LeWitt, Four Basic Kinds of Straight Lines, London: Studio International, 1969, 36 pp. Artist's book.
• January 5-31, 1969, New York: Seth Siegelaub, 1969.
• Joseph Kosuth, Art as Idea as Idea, 1967-1968, Brussels: Paul Maenz, Mar 1973, [12] pp. Catalogue.
• Blurting in A & L [Art & Language], New York: Art & Language Press, and Halifax: The Mezzanine, Nova Scotia College of Art, 1973, 92 pp; 2002. (English)/(German)
• Avalanche 4: "Conceptual Art", Spring 1972, 100 pp. TOC. (English)
• Sol LeWitt, Photo Grids, Paul David Press, 1977, 50 pp. Artist's book. (English)
• Seth Price, Dispersion, 2002. (English),(Spanish)

Major shows

• Live In Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form: Works-Concepts-Processes-Situations-Information, ed. Harald Szeemann, 1969. Catalogue from the 1969 exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bern. (English)
• 557,087, Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 1969. Catalogue of the exhibition, 5 Sep - 5 Oct 1969. (English)
• Konzeption / Conception, Leverkusen: Städt. Museum Leverkusen, et al., 1969. Catalogue of the exhibition curated by Konrad Fischer and Rolf Wedewer, 24 Oct - 23 Nov 1969. [5], 2015 reassessment. (German)/(English)
• Conceptual Art and Conceptual Aspects, New York: New York Cultural Center, 1970. Catalogue of the exhibition curated by Donald Karshan, 10 Apr - 25 Aug 1970. [6] [7] (English)
• Art in the Mind, intro. Athena T. Spear, Oberlin, OH: Allen Memorial Art Museum, 1970. Catalogue of the exhibition, 17 Apr - 12 May 1970. [8] [9] (English)
• Information, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1970. Catalogue of the exhibition curated by Kynaston McShine, 2 Jul - 20 Sep 1970. (English)
• Software: Information Technology: Its New Meaning for Art, New York: Jewish Museum, 1970, 71 pp. Catalogue of the exhibition curated by Jack Burnham, 16 Sep - 8 Nov 1970. (English)
• Documenta 5, eds. Harald Szeemann, et al., Kassel: documenta & Bertelsmann, 1972. Catalogue. (German)

Anthologies

• Ursula Meyer (ed.), Conceptual Art, New York: E.P. Dutton, 1972. TOC. (English)
• Gregory Battcock (ed.), Idea Art: A Critical Anthology, New York: E. P. Dutton, 1973. (English)
• Alexander Alberro, Blake Stimson (eds.), Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology, MIT Press, 1999, 623 pp. (English)

Reception, art historical studies

For publications on individual artists and collectives see their respective pages.

United States, United Kingdom

• Klaus Honnef, Concept Art, Cologne: Phaidon, 1971, 192 pp. (English)
• Lucy R. Lippard, Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972, New York: Praeger, 1973. (English)
• Benjamin Buchloh, "Conceptual Art 1962-1969: From the Aesthetic of Administration to the Critique of Institutions", October 55 (Winter 1990), pp 105-143. (English)
• Thomas Dreher, Konzeptuelle Kunst in Amerika und England zwischen 1963 und 1976, Frankfurt a.M., 1992. (German)
• Robert C. Morgan, Conceptual Art: An American Perspective, forew. Michael Kirby, Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 1994. (English)
• Reconsidering the Object of Art: 1965-1975, eds. Ann Goldstein and Anne Rorimer, MIT Press, 1995, 335 pp. Catalogue. (English)
• Robert C. Morgan, Art Into Ideas: Essays On Conceptual Art, Cambridge University Press, 1996. (English)
• Recording Conceptual Art. Early Interviews with Barry, Huebler, Kaltenbach, LeWitt, Morris, Oppenheim, Siegelaub, Smithson, and Weiner by Patricia Norvell, eds. Alexander Alberro and Patricia Norvell, University of California Press, 2001, 177 pp. [10] (English)
• Anne Rorimer, New Art in the 60s and 70s: Redefining Reality, London: Thames & Hudson, 2001, 304 pp. Excerpt. (English)
• Conceptual Art, ed. Peter Osborne, London: Phaidon, 2002, 304 pp. [11], TOC. (English)
• Paul Wood, Conceptual Art, Delano Greenidge Editions, 2002, 80 pp. (English)
• Alexander Alberro, Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity, MIT Press, 2003. [12] (English)
• Conceptual Art: Theory, Practice, Myth, ed. Michael Corris, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 380 pp. Introduction, [13]. (English)
• Daniel Marzona, Conceptual Art, Taschen, 2005, 95 pp. Excerpt. Of the 34 artists whose work forms the main body of his book, 17 are represented by pieces which reside in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Marzona Collection; these featured projects are often not the most representative, most iconic, or most interesting of the artists' works. (English)
• Liz Kotz, Words To Be Looked At: Language in 1960s Art, MIT Press, 2007, 333 pp. (English)
• Philosophy and Conceptual Art, eds. Peter Goldie and Elisabeth Schellekens, Oxford University Press, 2007. (English)
• John Roberts, The Intangibilities of Form: Skill and Deskilling in Art After the Readymade, London and New York: Verso Books, 2007, 249 pp. [14] (English)
• Elisabeth Schellekens, "Conceptual Art", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2007; rev. 2014. (English)
• Gwen Allen, Artists' Magazines: An Alternative Space for Art, MIT Press, 2011, 300 pp.
• Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph 1964–1977, Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2011. Catalogue. (English)
• Terry Smith, "One and Three Ideas: Conceptualism Before, During and After Conceptual Art", e-flux 29 (Nov 2011). (English)
• Eve Meltzer, Systems We Have Loved: Conceptual Art, Affect, and the Antihumanist Turn, University of Chicago Press, 2013. [15] (English)

France

• Art conceptuel I, Bordeaux: Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, 1988. Catalogue. (French)
• L'art conceptuel, Paris: ARC–Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1989. Catalogue. (French)
• Art Conceptuel Formes Conceptuelles / Conceptual Art Conceptual Forms, ed. Christian Schlatter, Paris: Galerie 1900–2000 and Galerie de Poche, 1990. Catalogue. (French)/(English)

Soviet Union, Russia

Andrei Monastyrsky, Dictionary of Moscow Conceptualism, 1999/2010, PDF, HTML.

Moskovskii kontseptualizm, 2005, PDF, Log.

Books

• Andrei Monastyrsky (Монастырский Андрей), Slovar terminov Moskovskoi kontseptualnoi shkoly [Словарь терминов московской концептуальной школы], Moscow: Ad Marginem, 1999. (Russian)
  • Dictionary of Moscow Conceptualism (An Adaptation), trans., annot. & illustr. Octavian Eşanu, Contimporary, 2010, 161 pp, PDF, HTML. (English)
• Sylvia Sasse, Texte in Aktion. Sprech- und Sprachakte im Moskauer Konzeptualismus, Munich: Fink, 2003. (German)
• Moskauer Konzeptualismus. Sammlung Haralampi G. Oroschakoff : Sammlung, Verlag und Archiv Vadim Zakharov : Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Cologne: Walter König, 2003, 176 pp. [16] [17] (German)/(English)
• Moskovskii kontseptualizm [Московский концептуализм], eds. Ekaterina Degot and Vadim Zakharov, Moscow: WAM, 2005, 415 pp. Special issue of World Art Музей (WAM) journal, 15/16. (Russian)
• Victor Tupitsyn, The Museological Unconscious: Communal (Post)Modernism in Russia, intro. Susan Buck-Morss and Victor Tupitsyn, MIT Press, 2009, x+341 pp. (English)
• Boris Groys, History Becomes Form: Moscow Conceptualism, MIT Press, 2010, 224 pp. Review: Weibgen (ArtJournal 2011). (English)
• Matthew Jesse Jackson, The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes, University of Chicago Press, 2010, 336 pp. [18]. Review: Weibgen (ArtJournal 2011). (English)
• Moscow Symposium: Conceptualism Revisited, ed. & intro. Boris Groys, Berlin: Sternberg, 2012, 176 pp. With essays by Claire Bishop, Keti Chukhrov, Ekaterina Degot, Jörg Heiser, Terry Smith, Anton Vidokle, and Sarah Wilson. [19] (English)
• Collective Actions: Audience Recollections from the First Five Years, 1976-1981, ed. & trans. Yelena Kalinsky, Chicago: Soberscove Press, 2012, 116 pp. A volume of audience recollections from early Collective Actions performances. Excerpt. [20]. Review: Gerber (Mute). (English)
• Octavian Eşanu, Transition in Post-Soviet Art: The Collective Actions Group Before and After 1989, forew. Boris Groys, CEU Press, 2013, xvii+357 pp. (English)
• Victor Agamov-Tupitsyn (Виктор Агамов-Тупицын), Vechnost vechna, potomu chto bespechna. Andrey Monastyrskiy i gruppa “Kollektivnyye deystviya” [Вечность вечна, потому что беспечна. Андрей Монастырский и группа “Коллективные действия”], Moscow: Garage, 2019, 184 pp. Dialogue between Andrei Monastyrsky and Victor Agamov-Tupitsyn. [21] (Russian)

Catalogues

• Between Spring and Summer: Soviet Conceptual Art in the Era of Late Communism, ed. David A. Ross, Tacoma, WA: Tacoma Art Museum, Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art, and Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990, 206 pp. Catalogue. Exh. curated by David A. Ross, Elisabeth Sussman, Margarita Tupitsyn, and Joseph Bakshtein. (English)
• Die Totale Aufklärung: Moskauer Konzeptkunst, 1960-1990 / Total Enlightenment: Conceptual Art in Moscow, 1960-1990, eds. Boris Groys, Max Hollein and Manuel Fontán del Junco, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2008, 423 pp. Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition held at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, June 21-Sept. 14, 2008 and Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Oct. 10, 2008-Jan. 11, 2009. (German)/(English)
  • La Ilustración total: arte conceptual de Moscú, 1960-1990 / Total Enlightenment: Conceptual Art in Moscow, 1960-1990, Madrid: Fundación Juan March, and Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2008, 424 pp. [22] (Spanish)/(English)
• Field of Action: The Moscow Conceptual School in Context 1970s-1980s, eds. Aleksandra Danilova and Elena Kuprina-Lyakhovich, Moscow: Ekaterina Collection, 2010. (English)
• Empty Zones: Andrei Monastyrski and Collective Actions / Пустые зоны. Андрей Монастырский и Коллективные действия, ed. Boris Groys, London: Black Dog Publishing, 2011, 127 pp. The Russian Pavilion at the 54th International Art Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia, 2011. [23] [24] (English)/(Russian)
• Moscow Conceptualism in Context, ed. Alla Rosenfeld, Munich: Prestel, and New Brunswick: Zimmerli Art Museum, 2011, 496 pp. [25]. Review: Audureau (Critique d'art 2012). (English)
• Moskovskii kontseptualizm. Nachalo [Московский концептуализм. Начало], ed. Yuri Albert (Юрий Альберт), Nizhny Novgorod: NCCA, 2014, 271 pp. Catalogue of the 2012 exhibition at NCCA Arsenal curated by Yuri Albert. (Russian)
• Thinking Pictures. The Visual Field of Moscow Conceptualism, ed. Jane A. Sharp, New Brunswick: Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, 2016. [26] [27]
• Thinking Pictures: Conceptual Art from Moscow and the Baltics, eds. Anu Allas and Liisa Kaljula, Tallinn: Estonian Art Museum, 2022, 208 pp. Exhibition. Exh. review: Janušová (Artmargins). [28] (Estonian)/(English)

Journal issues

• Iskusstvo [Искусство] 5: "Moskovskii kontseptualizm" [Московский концептуализм], 2008. Special issue of journal. (Russian)
• Iskusstvo [Искусство] 2: "Kontseptualizm. Obraz zhizni" [Концептуализм. Образ жизни], 2011. Special issue of journal. (Russian)
• e-flux 29: "Global Conceptualism Revisited", ed. Boris Groys, Nov 2011. (English)

Essays, interviews

• Boris Groys (Борис Гройс), "Ekzistentsialnyye predposylki kontseptualnogo iskusstva" [Экзистенциальные предпосылки концептуального искусства], 37 (samizdat) [Машинописный журнал "37"], No 12, Leningrad, 1977.
• Boris Groys (Борис Гройс), "Moskovskii romanticheskii kontseptualizm / Moscow Romantic Conceptualism" [Московский романтический концептуализм], A-Ya [А-Я] 1, Paris, 1979, pp 3-11; RU repr. in Moskovskii konceptualizm, eds. Degot and Zakharov, 2005; EN repr. in Groys, History Becomes Form: Moscow Conceptualism, 2010, pp 35-55. First published in the samizdat magazine 37, Leningrad, 1979. (Russian)/(English)
• Ekaterina Degot (Екатерина Дёготь), "Другое чтение других текстов. Московский концептуализм перед лицом идиоматического документа", NLO [НЛО] 22 (1996). (Russian)
• Victor Tupitsyn, "Moscow Communal Conceptualism", Parachute, Montreal, Apr 1996, pp 24-29. [29] (English)
  • "Moskovskiy kommunalnyy kontseptualizm" [Московский коммунальный концептуализм], n.d. (Russian)
• Margarita Tupitsyn, "About Early Soviet Conceptualism", in Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s, eds. Jane Ferver, et al., New York: Queens Museum of Art, 1999, pp 99-107, JPGs. (English)
• Ekaterina Degot (Екатерина Дёготь), "Kontseptualnyy proyekt" [Концептуальный проект], in Degot, Russkoye iskusstvo XX veka [Русское искусство ХХ века], Moscow: Trilistnik, 2000, pp 154-209. (Russian)
• Victor Tupitsyn (Виктор Тупицын), "Moskovskiy partizanskiy kontseptualizm" [Московский партизанский концептуализм], Stella Art Foundation, c2009. (Russian)
• Isabelle Després, "Le conceptualisme moscovite: art progressiste ou dissidence idéologique?", ILCEA 16 (2012). (French)
• Emanuel Landolt, Michail Maiatsky, "Une philosophie dans les marges: le cas du conceptualisme moscovite", Cahiers du monde Russe 53:4 (2012). [30] (French)
• Yelena Kalinsky, "Drowning in Documents: Action, Documentation, and Factography in Early Work by the Collective Actions Group", ARTMargins 2:1, 2013, pp 82-105. (English)
• Ksenya Gurshtein , "Utopia by Mail: Komar and Melamid’s A Catalogue of Superobjects: Supercomfort for Superpeople", Getty Research Journal 6, 2014, pp 203-213. (English)
• Olga Martin, "Moscow Conceptualism in the 1980s: Interview with Sabine Hänsgen (Zurich)", ARTMargins, 28 Aug 2015. (English)
• Mary A. Nicholas, "Rereading Moscow Conceptualism", Slavic Review 75:1, Spring 2016, pp 22-51. (English)
• Yuriy Leyderman (Юрий Лейдерман), "Razgovor s A.Monastyrskim o 'khudozhestvennoy situatsii'" [Разговор с А.Монастырским о 'художественной ситуации'] , Prostory, 13 Dec 2016. (Ukrainian)
• John Roberts, "After Moscow Conceptualism Reflections on the Center and Periphery and Cultural Belatedness", ARTMargins 9:1, Feb 2020, pp 47-57. [31] (English)

Dissertations

• Adrian Barr, Archaeologies of the Avant-Garde, Rutgers University, 2011, xiv+279 pp. Dissertation. [32] (English)

Bibliographies

• Bibliographies on Moscow Conceptualism page, ed. Sergey Letov.
• Bibliography on Conceptualism-Moscow.org

East-Central Europe

• Klaus Groh (ed.), Aktuelle Kunst in Osteuropa, Cologne: DuMont-Schauberg, 1972, 222 pp. One of first books to cover performance, conceptual, and mail art in Yugoslavia, Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and the Soviet Union. Short introduction by the author followed by b&w photographs, artists’ statements, and a bibliography. Archive. (German)

• Vision 2: "Eastern Europe", ed. Tom Marioni, San Francisco: Crown Point Press, Jan 1976. [33] (English)

• The New Art Practice in Yugoslavia, 1966-1978, ed. Marijan Susovski, Zagreb: Gallery of Contemporary Art, 1978, 148 pp. Exh. cat. (English)/(Serbo-Croatian)

• Tony Godfrey, Conceptual Art, London: Phaidon, 1998, pp 264-275, IA. (English)

• László Beke, "Conceptualist Tendencies in Eastern European Art", in Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950-1980s, eds. Jane Ferver, Luis Camnitzer and Rachel Weiss, New York: Queens Museum of Art, 1999, pp 41-51. TOC. Exh. held at Queens Museum, New York, 28 Apr-29 Aug 1999; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 19 Dec 1999–5 Mar 2000; Hayden Hall MIT, 24 Oct-31 Dec 2000. Exh. review: Meyer (Artforum), Johnson (NYT). (English)

• Desa Philippi, "Matter of Words: Translations in East European Conceptualism", in Rewriting Conceptual Art, eds. Michael Newman and Jon Bird, London: Reaktion Books, Dec 1999, pp 152-168. (English)

• "Conceptual Art and Times of Transition", ch. 3 in Primary Documents: A Sourcebook for Eastern and Central European Art Since the 1950s, eds. Laura Hoptman and Tomáš Pospiszyl, New York: Museum of Modern Art, Dec 2002, pp 122-195. (English)

• in Conceptual Art, ed. Peter Osborne, London: Phaidon, 2002. (English)

• Miško Šuvaković, "Konceptualna umjetnost", in Šuvaković, Pojmovnik suvremene umjetnosti, Zagreb: Horetzky, 2005. (Croatian)

• IRWIN (ed.), East Art Map: Contemporary Art and Eastern Europe, London: Afterall, 2006, 527 pp, IA. (English)

• Miško Šuvaković, Konceptualna umetnost, Novi Sad: MSUV, 2007, 862 pp; new ed., Belgrade: Orion Art, 2012, 862 pp. [34] [35] (Serbian)

• Novine Galerije Nova 18: "Nevidljiva povijest izložbi / Invisible History of Exhibitions", eds. What, How & for Whom/WHW, Zagreb: What, How & for Whom/WHW, and Zagreb: AGM, Dec 2008, 58 pp. Exh. cat. (Croatian)/(English)

• Novine Galerije Nova 19/20: "Nevidljiva povijest izložbi 2: paralelne kronologije / The Invisible History of Exhibitions 2: Parallel Chronologies", eds. Dóra Hegyi, Zsuzsa László, and What, How & for Whom/WHW, Zagreb: What, How & for Whom/WHW, and Zagreb: AGM, Jul 2009, 43 pp. Exh. cat. Publisher. (Croatian)/(English)

• Piotr Piotrowski, "The Critique of Painting: Towards the Neo-avant-garde", "Mapping the Neo-avant-garde, c. 1970", "Conceptual Art between Theory of Art and Critique of the System", chs. 6, 7 & 8 in Piotrowski, In the Shadow of Yalta: Art and the Avant-garde in Eastern Europe, 1945-1989, trans. Anna Brzyski, London: Reaktion Books, 2009, pp 178-237, n454-458, 241-314, n458-466, 315-340, n467-469. (English)

• Art Always Has Its Consequences, eds. WHW, tranzit.hu, Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi, and kuda.org, Zagreb: WHW, 2010, 265 pp. (English)

• Removed From the Crowd: Unexpected Encounters 1, eds. Ivana Bago and Antonia Majača with Vesna Vuković, Zagreb: BLOK & DeLVe, 2011, 312 pp. (English)

• Ksenya A. Gurshtein, TransStates: Conceptual Art in Eastern Europe and the Limits of Utopia, University of Michigan, 2011, 323 pp. PhD thesis. [36] (English)

• ARTMargins 1(2-3): "Artists' Networks in Latin America and Eastern Europe", eds. Klara Kemp-Welch and Cristina Freire, 2012. (English)

• Zdenka Badovinac, Eda Čufer, Cristina Freire, Boris Groys, Charles Harrison, Vít Havránek, Piotr Piotrowski, Branka Stipančić, "Conceptual Art and Eastern Europe: Part I", e-flux 40, Dec 2012; Part 2, e-flux 41, Jan 2013. Based on a conference organised by Zdenka Badovinac in Ljubljana, 2007. (English)

• Maja Fowkes, The Green Bloc: Neo-Avant-Garde Art and Ecology under Socialism, Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, Jul 2015, viii+299 pp. Publisher. Reviews: Cseh-Varga (Springerin), Debeusscher (Critique d'art), Filipovic (AM J), Laki (Flash Art CS). (English)

• Revista Arta 6(20-21): "Conceptualismul în Europa Centrală și de Est / Conceptualism in Eastern and Central Europe", ed. Cristian Nae, Bucharest, Sep 2016, 191 pp. [37] (Romanian)/(English)

• My Sweet Little Lamb (Everything We See Could Also Be Otherwise), eds. What, How & for Whom/WHW and Kathrin Rhomberg, Zagreb: What, How & for Whom/WHW, 2017, 167 pp; new ed., exp., eds. Emily Pethick, Kathrin Rhomberg, What, How & for Whom/WHW, and Jill Winder, Berlin: Sternberg Press, and Vienna: Kontakt Collection, Mar 2023, 456 pp. Based on a series of exhibition episodes based on the Kontakt Collection and dedicated to the artist Mladen Stilinović, held in Zagreb, 4 Nov 2016–8 May 2017, and The Show Room, London, Jun 2017. Texts in exp. ed. by Branislav Dimitrijević, Miguel A. López, Oxana Timofeeva, Marina Vishmidt. Publisher. (English)

• Klara Kemp-Welch, Networking the Bloc: Experimental Art in Eastern Europe 1965-1981, MIT Press, Feb 2019, xi+468 pp. Publisher. Reviews: Nae (ARTMargins), Tomkova (H-Net), Hughes (Critique d'art). (English)

• Maja Fowkes, Reuben Fowkes, Central and Eastern European art since 1950, London: Thames & Hudson, Mar 2020, 232 pp. Introduction. Publisher. Reviews: Nae (ARTMargins), Rousseva (CAA), Schultz (Art Monthly), Placáková (Artportal.hu), Placáková (Artalk.cz, CZ).

Poland

• Urszula Czartoryska, Od pop-artu do sztuki konceptualnej, Warsaw, 1973. (Polish)
• Stefan Morawski, "Konceptualizm obcy i rodzimy", Projekt 3 (1975), pp 26-33 (Polish)
• Urszula Czartoryska, Od pop-artu do sztuki konceptualnej, Warsaw, 1976. (Polish)
• Alicja Kępińska, Nowa sztuka. Sztuka polska w latach 1945-1978, Warsaw: Auriga, 1981. (Polish)
• Piotr Krakowski, "O sztuce konceptualnej", ch 6 in Krakowski, O sztuce nowej i najnowszej, Warsaw: PWN, 1981, pp 112-134. (Polish)
• Grzegorz Dziamski, "Konceptualizm", in Od awangardy do postmodernizmu. Encyklopedia kultury polskiej XX wieku, ed. Dziamski, Warsaw, 1996, pp 369ff. (Polish)
• Refleksja konceptualna w sztuce polskiej: doświadczenia dyskursu, 1965-1975 / Conceptual Reflection in Polish Art: Experiences of Discourse: 1965-1975, eds. Paweł Polit and Piotr Woźniakiewicz, Warsaw: Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, 2000. Essays by Alicja Kepinska, Andrzej Kostolowski, Pawel Polit; interviews with Andrzej Turowski and Jerzy Ludwinski. Preface (EN). Exhibition 1. Exhibition 2. Exh.review: Lum & Szymczyk (ArtMargins EN 1999). Book review: Murawska-Muthesius (ArtMargins 2003 EN). (Polish)/(English)
• Martin Patrick, "Polish Conceptualism of the 1960s and 1970s: Images, Objects, Systems and Texts", Third Text 96: "Socialist Eastern Europe", Spring 2001, pp 25-45. (English)
• Autonomiczny ruch konceptualny w Polsce, ed. Zbigniew Warpechowski, Lublin: Galeria Stara BWA Lublin, 2002. Catalogue. (Polish)
• Grzegorz Dziamski, "Spór o sztukę konceptualną w Polsce", Dyskurs 7 (2007), pp 194-224. (Polish)
• Luiza Nader, "Sztuka konceptualna w Polsce", Culture.pl, 20 Nov 2007. (Polish)
  • "Conceptual Art in Poland. Spaces of Discourse", Culture.pl, 20 Nov 2007. (English)
• Luiza Nader, Konceptualizm w PRL, Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego & Fundacja Galerii Foksal, 2009, 429 pp. Based on dissertation (2007). Reviews: Sienkiewicz (Dwutygodnik 2009), Szewczyk (Frieze 2010 EN), Kemp-Welch (ArtMargins 2010 EN). (Polish)
• Łukasz Ronduda, Sztuka polska lat 70. awangarda, Jelenia Góra: Polski Western, and Warsaw: CSW Zamek Ujazdowski, 2009, 379 pp. Editorial concept: Piotr Uklański. [38] [39] (Polish)
  • Polish Art of the 70s, Jelenia Góra: Polski Western, and Warsaw: CCA Zamek Ujazdowski, 2009, 379 pp. Reviews: Szewczyk (Frieze 2010), Kemp-Welch (ArtMargins 2010). (English)
• Wokół sporów o definicję przedmiotu sztuki. Miejsce konceptualizmu, kontekstualizmu i sztuki pojęciowej w historii sztuki najnowszej, ed. Bogusław Jasiński, Gorzów Wielkopolski: Galeria Sztuki Najnowszej, 2009. (Polish)
• Grzegorz Dziamski, Przełom konceptualny i jego wpływ na praktykę i teorię sztuki, Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2010, 294 pp. Chapter 6. [40] (Polish)
• Sztuka i Dokumentacja 6: "Sztuka jako idea, ludzie, czas. W kręgu polskiego konceptualizmu", Łódź, 2012. (Polish)
• Permafo: monografia galerii i ruchu artystycznego, ed. Anna Markowska, Wrocław: Muzeum Współczesne Wrocław, 2012, 496 pp. Lead essay. [41] (Polish)
  • Permafo 1970-1981, ed. Anna Markowska, Wrocław: Wrocław Contemporary Museum, and Motto Books, 2013, 456 pp. Introduction. [42] [43] (English)
    • Anna Markowska, "Permafo 1970-1981: Zbigniew Dłubak, Antoni Dzieduszycki, Natalia LL, Andrzej Lachowicz", pp 13-101.
• Łukasz Guzek, "Performatywność sztuki konceptualnej", Dyskurs 17 (2014), pp 189-219. (Polish)
• Klara Kemp-Welch, "NET: An Open Proposition", e-flux 98, Feb 2019. (English)

Slovakia

• Tomáš Štrauss, Slovenský variant moderny, 1979 (samizdat); 2nd ed., Bratislava: Pallas, 1992, pp 55ff. (Slovak)

• Radislav Matuštík, ...Predtým. Prekročenie hraníc, 1964-1971, 1983 (samizdat); repr., Žilina: Považská galéria umenia, 1994, 27ff. [44] (Slovak)

• Tamara Archlebová, "Príspevok k problematike konceptuálneho umenia na Slovensku", in Súčasné výtvarné umenie, ed. Dagmar Srnenská, Bratislava, 1989, pp 98-132. (Slovak)

• Aurel Hrabušický, "Počiatky alternatívneho umenia na Slovensku", in Šesťdesiate roky v slovenskom výtvarnom umení, ed. Zora Rusinová, Bratislava: Slovenská národná galéria, 1995, pp 218-251. (Slovak)

• Jana Geržová, "Konceptuálne umenie", in Slovník svetového a slovenského výtvarného umenia druhej polovice 20. storočia, ed. Jana Geržová, Bratislava: Profil, 1999, pp 145-149. (Slovak)

• Jana Geržová, "Konceptuálne umenie", in Dejiny slovenského výtvarného umenia 20. storočia, ed. Zora Rusinová, Bratislava: SNG, 2000, pp 170-178. (Slovak)

• Marián Mudroch, Dezider Tóth (eds.), 1. otvorený ateliér, Bratislava: SCCAN, 2000, 143 pp. (Slovak)

• Aurel Hrabušický, "Umenie fantastického odhmotnenia", in Slovenské vizuálne umenie 1970–1985, ed. Aurel Hrabušický, Bratislava: SNG, 2002, pp 143-188. (Slovak)

• Tomáš Štrauss, "Niektoré charakteristické črty konceptualizmu na Slovensku", in Slovenské vizuálne umenie 1970–1985, ed. Aurel Hrabušický, Bratislava: SNG, 2002, pp 221-225. (Slovak)

• Konceptuálne umenie na zlome tisícročí / Conceptual Art at the Turn of Millenium / Konceptuális művészet az ezredfordulón. International Symposium, October 15-16, 2001, Budapest/Bratislava, eds. Jana Geržová and Erzsébet Tatai, Bratislava: Slovak Section of AICA, and Budapest: AICA Section Hungary, 2002, 174 pp. Symposium proceedings. (Slovak),(English),(Hungarian)
  • Jana Geržová, "Mýty a realita konceptuálneho umenia na Slovensku" / "Myths and Reality of the Conceptual Art in Slovakia", pp 22-51. (Slovak)/(English)

• Jana Geržová, "N(e)oklasický koncept", in Na križovatke kultúr? Zborník z medzinárodného sympózia, ed. Zora Rusinová, Bratislava: Slovenská národná galéria, 2002, pp 107-118. (Slovak)

• Eva Kapsová, Konceptuálne tendencie vo výtvarnom umení, Banská Bystrica: Akademia umení, 2002, 180 pp. (Slovak)

• Dušan Brozman, Boris Kršňák, Zo slovenského konceptuálneho umenia, Budapest: Slovenský Inštitút Budapešť, and Zvolen: Oznka, 2008. Catalogue. (Slovak)

• Roman Gajdoš, Konceptuálny text. Genéza a metamorfózy, Trnava: Typi Universitatis Tyrnaviensis, 2010, 130 pp. (Slovak)

• Zuzana Bartošová, Napriek totalite. Neoficiálna slovenská výtvarná scéna sedemdesiatych a osemdesiatych rokov 20. storočia, Bratislava: Kalligram, 2011, 360 pp. Commentary: Hrabušický & Macek (Profil 2012). (Slovak)

• Zuzana Biľová, Inštitucionálne prijatie konceptuálneho umenia v Európe, Prague: Karlova univerzita, 2011, 104+68 pp. Master's thesis. (Slovak)

• Beata Jablonská, "Spor o slovenské 'More'", Sešit pro umění, teorii a příbuzné zóny 15, Prague: VVP AVU, 2013, pp 6-19. (Slovak)

• Tomáš Pospiszyl, "Národní konceptualizmus. Obrozenecké motivy v díle Stana Filka a Júliuse Kollera", ch 3 in Pospiszyl, Asociativní dějepis umění: poválečné umění napříč generacemi a médii, Prague: tranzit.cz, 2014, pp 81-121. (Czech)

• Miękkie kody. Tendencje konceptualne w sztuce słowackiej / Soft Codes: Conceptual Tendencies in Slovak Art, Wrocław: Muzeum Współczesne Wrocław, 2015, 224 pp. Catalogue. [45], Exhibition. (Polish)/(English)

• Vladimír Beskid, "Kozmológia a cesta papierovým vesmírom", Flash Art Czech & Slovak Edition 37, Oct-Dec 2015, pp 48 ff. (Slovak)

• Zuzana Biľová, Brücken für künstlerische Formen. Netzwerke der Kunst zwischen Westdeutschland und der Tschechoslowakei in der Zeit des Kalten Krieges (1968-1989), Munich: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 2017, 334+83 pp. PhD dissertation. [46] (German)

• Ján Kralovič, Majstrovstvo za dverami: Majstrovstvá Bratislavy v posune artefaktu (1979-1986) v kontexte bytových výstav 70. a 80. rokov 20. storočia, Bratislava: Slovart (Dejiny), and Bratislava: Vysoká škola výtvarných umení, 2017, 327 pp. [47] [48] [49] (Slovak)

• Erzsébet Tatai, "Signal - Konceptuális és posztkonceptuális tendenciák a szlovák képzőművészetben", Balkon 26:6-7, 2019, pp 14-23. Exh. review. [50] (Hungarian)
  • "Signál – konceptuálne a postkonceptuálne tendencie v slovenskom umení" [Signál – Conceptual and Post-Conceptual Tendencies in Slovakia’s Art], trans. Anna Antalová, Profil 3, Bratislava, 2019, pp 114-141. (Slovak)

• Daniela Čarná (ed.), 1. otvorený ateliér, 1970-2020, Bratislava: Galéria 19, 2020, 87 pp. Catalogue. [51] [52] [53] (Slovak)

• Daniel Grúň, Christian Höller, Kathrin Rhomberg (eds.), White Space in White Space / Biely priestor v bielom priestore, 1973-1982. Stano Filko, Miloš Laky, Ján Zavarský, Vienna: Schlebrügge, 2021, 228 pp. Project archive. Publisher. [54] [55] (English)

• Denisa Kujelová (ed.), ČS koncept 70. let, Brno: Fait Gallery, 2021, 363 pp. Catalogue. [56] [57] [58] (Czech),(Slovak)

• Richard Gregor (ed.), BAC: Bratislava Conceptualism / Bratislavský konceptualizmus, Bratislava: Kunsthalle Bratislava, and Liptovský Mikuláš: Liptovská galéria Petra Michala Bohúňa, 2022, 480 pp. Proceedings from the conference Could We Speak of Bratislava Conceptualism (2015). Essays incl.: Gregor, Gregor, Kralovič. [59] (English)/(Slovak)

• Paula Gortázar, "Cosmos, Fiction and Transcendence: Photography and Conceptual Art in Communist Bratislava", Third Text 37:1, 2023, pp 61-86. (English)

Hungary

• Tendenciák 1970–1980. 6. Kemény és lágy. Posztkonceptuális tendenciák, kiállításkatalógus, ed. László Beke, Budapest: Óbuda Galéria, 1981. (Hungarian)
• Miklós Peternák, A konceptuális mûvészet hatása Magyarországon / Conceptual Art in Hungary, [1988] 1997; new ed. as koncept.hu: A konceptuális művészet hatása Magyarországon / concept.hu: The Influence of Conceptual Art in Hungary, Paks: Art Gallery Paks, and Budapest: C3 Foundation, 2014, 199 pp, HTML. First appeared in 1997 as an electronic publication of manuscript from 1988. [60]. Exhibition (2014). [61] (Hungarian)/(English)
• Éva Körner, "Az abszurd mint koncepció (jelenetek a magyar koncept art történetéből)", Balkon 1 & 2 (1993); repr. as "Az abszurd mint koncepció – A magyar konceptualizmus jelenségei", in Velencei Biennále XLV. Nemzetközi Művészeti Kiállítás Magyar Pavilon, 1993, pp 185-198. (Hungarian)
  • "The Absurd as Concept: Phenomena of Hungarian Conceptualism", in Art & Design 9: "New Art from Eastern Europe: Identity and Conflict", ed. Paul Crowther, London: Academy Editions, Mar-Apr 1994, pp 54-59. [62] (English)
• A konceptuális művészet Magyarországon. Előadások a C3-ban, Budapest, 1997. Video documentation of lecture series. (Hungarian)
• A magyar neoavantgarde első generációja, ed. Júlia Fabényi, Szombathely: Szombathelyi Képtár, 1998. Catalogue. (Hungarian)
• Konceptuálne umenie na zlome tisícročí / Conceptual Art at the Turn of Millenium / Konceptuális művészet az ezredfordulón. International Symposium, October 15-16, 2001, Budapest/Bratislava, eds. Jana Geržová and Erzsébet, Budapest and Bratislava: AICA, 2002, 174 pp. Symposium proceedings. (Slovak),(English),(Hungarian)
• Júlia Klaniczay, Edit Sasvári (eds.), Törvénytelen avantgárd: Galántai György balatonboglári kápolnaműterme 1970-1973, Budapest: Artpool–Balassi, 2003, 459 pp. The first comprehensive publication on performance and conceptual art events between 1970 and 1973 at the Balatonboglár Chapel in Hungary, founded by the artist György Galántai, the sort of activities that would be banned from 1974 until 1990 in Hungary. Chronicles the abandoned chapel as a unique site for experimental art in Hungary during state socialism, and includes an extensive chronology, previously unpublished archival documents, photographs and texts, interviews, and a bibliography. [63] (Hungarian)
• László Beke, "A magyar konceptuális művészet szubjektív története", in Né/ma? Tanulmányok a magyar neoavantgárd köréből, eds. Pál Deréky and András Müllner, Budapest: Ráció Kiadó, 2004, pp 227-239. (Hungarian)
• Miklós Peternák, "Művészet, kutatás, kísérlet. Tudományos terminusok, módszerek, utalások és fogalmi rendszerek a művészetben az 1940-es és 1970-es évek között", Ars Hungarica 1 (2005), pp 193-212. (Hungarian)
• Erzsébet Tatai, Neokonceptuális művészet Magyarországon a kilencvenes években, Budapest: Praesens, 2005, 232 pp. Based on PhD dissertation. Reviews: Rieder (artPortal 2007), Sturcz, Turai (Ars Hungarica 2008). (Hungarian)
• Edit András, "Transgressing Boundaries (Even Those Marked Out by the Predecessors) in the New Genre Conceptual Art", in Art After Conceptual Art, eds. Alexander Alberro and Sabeth Buchman, MIT Press, and Vienna: Generali Foundation, 2006, pp 163-178. [64] (English)

• Elképzelés: A magyar koncept művészet kezdetei. Beke László gyűjteménye, 1971, Budapest: Open Structures Society & tranzit. hu, 2008. (Hungarian)
  • Imagination/Idea. The Beginning of Hungarian Conceptual Art. The László Beke Collection, 1971, eds. Dóra Hegyi, Zsuzsa László and Eszter Szakács, Budapest: tranzit.hu, and Zurich: JRP Ringier, 2014, 368 pp. Book launch at Secession Vienna, Book launch at tranzit.hu, Report by Medosch. (English)

• Konceptualizmus Ma. Konceptualizmus Magyarországon a kilencvenes évek elejétől, ed. Zoltán Prosek, Paks: Paksi Képtár, 2013, 41 pp. Catalogue. (Hungarian)

• Katalin Székely, "Mert mindenki csak ül meg áll. Lábjegyzetek egy meg nem írt könyvhöz", exindex, 11 Nov 2013. (Hungarian)

• Emese Kürti, "Ezoterikus avantgárd. A koncept/konceptuális paradigma", exindex, 4 Aug 2014. (Hungarian)
  • "Esoteric Avant-garde: The Concept/Conceptual Paradigm", exindex, 4 Aug 2014. (English)

• Bookmarks: Hungarian Neo-avant-garde and Post-conceptual art from the Late 1960s to the Present / Bookmarks. Neo-Avantgarde und postkonzeptuelle Positionen in der ungarischen Kunst von den 1960ern bis heute, ed. Katalin Székely, Berlin: Distanz, 2015, 88 pp. Catalogue. [65] (English)/(German)

• Erzsébet Tatai, "konceptuális művészet (koncept művészet Magyarországon)", Artportal Lexikon, Budapest, n.d. (Hungarian)

• Maja and Reuben Fowkes, "Placing Bookmarks: The Institutionalisation and De-Institutionalisation of Hungarian Neo-Avant-Garde and Contemporary Art", Tate Papers 26, 2016. (English)

• Expozíció – Fotó/mûvészet / Exposition – Photo/Art, 1976/2017, ed. Flóra Barkóczi, Budapest: Vintage Gallery, 2017. On the use of photography among conceptual artists in Hungary in the 1970s. [66] (Hungarian)/(English)

• Edit Sasvári, Sándor Hornyik, Hedvig Turai (eds.), Art in Hungary 1956-1980: Double Speak and Beyond, London: Thames & Hudson, 2018, 384 pp. [67] (English)
  • Flóra Barkóczi, "Creative (Dis)Courses: The Forms, Methods and Locations of Alternative Art Pedagogy in Hungary", pp 95-112.

• Cristina Cuevas-Wolf, Isotta Poggi (eds.), Promote, Tolerate, Ban: Art and Culture in Cold War Hungary, Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2018, 160 pp. Fehér's essay. [68] (English)

• Evasion Techniques: Subversive strategy and cocking a snook at authority in the Hungarian Avant-garde in the 1960s and '70s, eds. Giuseppe Garrera, József Készman, Viktória Popovics and Sebastiano Triulzi, Rome: Palazzo delle Esposizioni, 2020. Exhibition. Works. (English)
  • Tecniche d'evasione, Rome: Palazzo delle Esposizioni, 2020. (Italian)

• Katalin Cseh-Varga, The Hungarian Avant-Garde and Socialism: The Art of the Second Public Sphere, Bloomsbury, 2022, 264 pp, EPUB. Publisher. (English)

• 1971 – Párhuzamos különidők, eds. Dóra Hegyi, Zsuzsa László, Zsóka Leposa, and Enikő Róka, Budapest: tranzit.hu, 2022. Exhibition. Exhibition. Publisher. (Hungarian)
  • 1971 – Parallel Nonsynchronism, eds. Dóra Hegyi and Eszter Szakács, Budapest: tranzit.hu, and Bucharest: PUNCH, 2022, 332 pp. Publisher. Publisher. Review: Świtek (Art East/Central). Exh. review: Laszlo & Roka (mezosfera). (English)

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Croatia

• The Misfits: Conceptualist Strategies in Croatian Contemporary Art / Neprilagodeni: konceptualističke strategije u hrvatskoj suvremonoj umjetnosti, ed. Tihomir Milovac, Zagreb: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2002, 208 pp. Exh. held at Expo Park, Moscow, 18-28 Apr 2002; Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, May-Jun 2002; Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien, Berlin, Oct 2002. (English)/(Croatian)
• O nepoznatim radovima. On Unknown Works, ed. Branka Stipančić, Zagreb: AGM & WHW, and Dubrovnik: Art Workshop Lazareti, 2006, 56 pp. Catalogue. (Croatian)/(English)

Global

• Tony Godfrey, Conceptual Art, London: Phaidon, 1998. [69]
• Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950-1980s, eds. Jane Ferver, Luis Camnitzer and Rachel Weiss, New York: Queen's Museum of Art, 1999. Catalogue.
• Rewriting Conceptual Art, eds. Michael Newman and Jon Bird, London: Reaktion Books, 1999.

Resources

• http://www.conceptualism-moscow.org
• http://conceptualism.letov.ru