What is Conceptual Art Intro and Chpt. 9

• "Conceptual art challenges the traditional status of the art object as a unique, collectable or saleable."
• presenting artwork as challenges rather than statements
• Conceptual art in four forms:
• readymade- an object from the outside world which is claimed or proposed as art, thus denying both the uniqueness of the object and the necessity for the artist's hand
• Intervention- when image, text or thing is placed in an unexpected context
• documentation- where the actual work can only be presented in notes, maps, charts, or photographs
• words- where the concept in presented in language
• conceptual art is reflexive
• "Artists work with meaning, not with shapes, colors. or materials"
• Photography fear, not a true form of art in 60s-70s
• Turning photography and film from using it ironically for to indexing the world unobstructed
• Cameras essential to documentation 
• "Different versions of reality"
• Christian Marclay, Amplification, found photographs made bigger and placed in a church, completely changes concept 
• Viewer can be made into surrogate person
• "What do you represent"