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Art
Alloway, Lawrence | July 19, 1971 issue

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This article focuses on the different forms of contemporary art. Land art, by taking the earth itself as a medium, has expanded the scale possible for artists and body art, by making the artist's organism his subject, has abolished the need for hardware. Conceptual art, as it is propositional in form, reduces the physical presence of art to whatever is needed to point to an idea. It is not objectless art, but the kind of object is usually common and repeatable. At present artists working in these ways are visible in terms of movements, because the comparative unfamiliarity of their work outweighs recognition of their individual styles.

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EARTHWORKS (Art); BODY art; CONCEPTUAL art; ARTISTS; ORGANISM (Philosophy); ART
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