Editing Conceptual art (section)

==Origins==
In 1961, philosopher and artist [[Henry Flynt]] coined the term "concept art" in an article bearing the same name which appeared in the proto-[[Fluxus]] publication ''[[An Anthology of Chance Operations]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.henryflynt.org/aesthetics/conart.html|title=Essay: Concept Art|website=www.henryflynt.org}}</ref> Flynt's concept art, he maintained, devolved from his notion of "cognitive nihilism", in which paradoxes in logic are shown to evacuate concepts of substance. Drawing on the [[syntax]] of logic and mathematics, concept art was meant jointly to supersede mathematics and the formalistic music then current in serious [[art music]] circles.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.henryflynt.org/meta_tech/crystal.html|title=The Crystallization of Concept Art in 1961|website=www.henryflynt.org}}</ref> Therefore, Flynt maintained, to merit the label ''concept art'', a work had to be a critique of logic or mathematics in which a linguistic concept was the material, a quality which is absent from subsequent "conceptual art".<ref>Henry Flynt, "Concept-Art (1962)", Translated and introduced by Nicolas Feuillie, Les presses du réel, Avant-gardes, Dijon.</ref>

The term assumed a different meaning when employed by Joseph Kosuth and by the English [[Art and Language]] group, who discarded the conventional art object in favour of a documented critical inquiry, that began in ''[[Art-Language|Art-Language: The Journal of Conceptual Art]]'' in 1969, into the artist's social, philosophical, and psychological status. By the mid-1970s they had produced publications, indices, performances, texts and paintings to this end. In 1970 ''Conceptual Art and Conceptual Aspects'', the first dedicated conceptual-art exhibition, took place at the [[New York Cultural Center]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.artlex.com/art-terms/c/conceptual-art/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130516162830/http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/c/conceptualart.html|url-status=dead|title=Conceptual Art (Conceptualism) – Artlex|archivedate=May 16, 2013}}</ref>