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'''Conceptual art''', sometimes called '''idea art''', is [[art]] in which the ideas embodied by a piece are more central to the work than the means used to create it. It was described by the artist [[Sol LeWitt]] like so:

Early histories of a [[war]] typically describe the war as it was declared by the states involved. It is not uncommon for later historians to group together a series of wars over a long period or spread over several [[theater of war|theaters]] as part of a broader conflict or [[strategic]] campaign. The most familiar of these in the present day is probably the [[Cold War]], which included the [[Korean War]], [[Vietnam War]], and [[Afghan-Soviet War]], among others. These groupings provide useful context for the wars involved.

*[[264 BC]]-[[146 BC]] [[Punic Wars]]

:''In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.''

*[[58 BC]]-[[50 BC]] [[Gallic Wars]]

*[[1296]]-[[1363]] [[Wars of Scottish Independence]]

*[[1494]]-[[1559]] [[Italian Wars]]

*[[1562]]-[[1598]] [[French Wars of Religion]]

*[[1637]]-[[1890]] [[Indian Wars]] (United States)

*[[1637]]-[[1652]] [[Wars of the Three Kingdoms]]

*[[1648]]-[[1667]] [[The Deluge]]

*[[1689]]-[[1763]] [[French and Indian Wars]]

*[[1747]]-[[1793]] [[Ten Great Campaigns]]

*[[1754]]-[[1763]] [[Seven Years' War]]

*[[1754]]-[[1814]] [[Sixty Years' War]]

*[[1792]]-[[1802]] [[French Revolutionary Wars]]

*[[1792]]-[[1815]] [[Napoleonic Wars]]

*[[1838]]-[[1940]] [[The Great Game]]

*[[1848]]-[[1866]] [[Italian Independence wars]]

*[[1912]]-[[1913]] [[Balkan Wars]]

*[[1931]]-[[1945]] [[World War II]] {{fn|1}}, including the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]], [[Winter War]] and [[Continuation War]]

*[[1945]]-[[1991]] [[Cold War]]

*[[1946]]-[[1979]] [[Indochina Wars]]

*[[1947]]-present [[Indo-Pakistani Wars]] and [[Kashmir]] conflict

*[[1948]]-present [[Arab-Israeli Conflict]]

*[[1980]]-present [[Gulf Wars]]

*[[1991]]-[[2001]] [[Yugoslav Wars]]

*[[1996]]-present [[Congo Civil War|Congo Wars]]

*[[2001]]-present [[War on Terror]]

Some [[left-wing]] analysts refer to all military activity by [[Western world|Western]] powers in the [[developing world]] since [[1492]] as a continuous "Imperialist War."

Conceptual art as a movement emerged during the mid-[[1960s]], in part as a reaction against [[formalism]] as it was then articulated by the influential New York art critic [[Clement Greenberg]]. However, the work of the French artist [[Marcel Duchamp]] from the 1910s and 1920s paved the way for the Conceptualists, providing them with examples of prototypically Conceptual works (the [[readymade]]s, for instance) that defied categorisation and could not be said to be art by virtue of their specific visual properties alone.

{{fnb|1}} [[Russia]] remains technically at war with [[Japan]].

Many artists turned to conceptualism because of a belief that creating commercially marketable works was in some way unethical.

Conceptual art often makes use of materials such as [[photograph]]s, [[map]]s, and [[video]]s. It is sometimes reduced to a set of instructions documenting how to make a work, but stopping short of actually making it--the idea behind the art is more important than the artefact itself.

Out of this concept artforms like [[fluxus]] and [[mail art]] have emerged.

==Conceptual artists==

*[[Art & Language]]

*[[John Hilliard]]

*[[Douglas Huebler]]

*[[Joseph Kosuth]]

*[[Lawrence Weiner]]

*[[Robert Barry]]

*[[Mel Bochner]]

*[[Adrian Piper]]

*[[Ian Burn]]

*[[Hans Haacke]]

*[[Hanne Darboven]]

*[[Dan Graham]]

*[[Daniel Buren]]

*[[Henry Flynt]]

*[[Damien Hirst]]

*[[Tracy Emin]]

*[[Sarah Lucas]]

*[[Bill Barker]]

*[[Josh Dickstein]]

*[[Ivona Tinkle]]

*[[Scott Rait]]

==See also==

*[[Visual arts and design]]

*[[Modern art]]

*[[Contemporary art]]

*[[Installation art]]

*[[Video art]]

==External links==

* [http://www.ic.sunysb.edu/Stu/kswenson/lewitt.htm Sol LeWitt, "Paragraphs on Conceptual Art"]

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