| Conceptualism and its Posterity c 1963 - c 1979 Art in which the concept or the idea is more important than the physical object, which is often constructed by someone other than the artist. Began in the early 1960s in the U.S. though Conceptualism was a worldwide phenomenon through the 1970s. Some of these pieces indicate ways in which today’s generation of artists work in a conceptual manner. | |
| Giovanni Anselmo (b. 1934) | |
| John Baldessari (b. 1931) |
| Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) |
| Daniel Buren (b. 1938) | |
| Victor Burgin (b. 1941) | |
| James Lee Byars (b. 1932) | |
| James Coleman (b. 1941) | |
| Jan Dibbets (b. 1941) |
| Hamish Fulton (b. 1946) | |
| Dan Graham (b. 1942) |
| Hans Haacke (b. 1936) | |
| Allan Kaprow (b. 1927) | |
| On Kawara (b. 1932) |
| Joseph Kosuth (b. 1945) | |
| Barry Le Va (b. 1941) | |
| Les Levine (b. 1935) | |
| Richard Long (b. 1945) |
| Robert Morris (b. 1931) |
| Bruce Nauman (b. 1941) |
| Dennis A. Oppenheim (b. 1938) | |
| Dieter Roth (b. 1930) |
| Lawrence Weiner (b. 1942) |