How to Use conceptualism in a Sentence

conceptualism

noun

• The creators of Untitled Goose Game seem to have known that there was a risk that the title would fail to rise above conceptualism.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2019
• Now 38 years old, the young Akchoté has earned a reputation for fierce conceptualism.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 8 Nov. 2019
• By contrast, London was considered a breeding ground of edgy young things lauded as faces of the future, and Paris, all creative conceptualism and glamour, the zenith of the seasonal calendar.
  — Elizabeth Paton, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2016
• That seemed ridiculously backward by the lights of the time’s reigning vanguards of flinty post-minimalism, cagey conceptualism, and chaste abstraction.
  — The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
• But Piper quickly joined the avant-garde of her time, leaving figuration behind for the conceptualism then being formulated by Sol LeWitt and other (mostly male) artists.
  — Jillian Steinhauer, The New Republic, 30 May 2018
• Resnick’s work contributes to the conceptual discourse of the time, but also transcends it by reimagining more traditional art forms based on the formal breakthroughs of conceptualism.
  — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 30 Apr. 2022
• In the end, craft—like photography—was freed from its medium-specific purgatory by conceptualism.
  — Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 19 Aug. 2021
• In the fine arts, conceptualism overtook both figurative work and abstraction in the 20th century, giving the idea of a creative work more weight than its aesthetic or representational properties.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2019
• London’s art schools started swapping drawing classes for conceptualism and cameras.
  — Dominic Green, WSJ, 15 June 2018
• His exploration of motifs—in paintings, prints, drawings and sculpture—propelled 20th-century art into a host of avenues, including pop art, conceptualism and minimalism.
  — Brenda Cronin, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2018
• But the early discouragement fueled a resolve to push hard against received notions of painting in the late 1960s, when painting itself was being consigned to historical oblivion by the dominant movements of minimalism and conceptualism.
  — Randy Kennedy, BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2020
• But from the 1970s on, as conceptualism, expressionist painting and other postmodernist movements came to the fore, the Alberses’ brand of geometric abstraction and formal experimentation fell out of fashion.
  — Carol Kino, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2017
• Drawing from symphonies, chamber music and conceptualism, electro-acoustic fusions, neo-romanticism and choral music, string quartets, song cycles and serialism, Reynolds embraces and expands many traditions.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2019
• Her strain of snapshot conceptualism, profoundly personal and eminently personable, could have been overwhelmed with minutiae or weighed down by retrospective insight.
  — Johanna Fateman, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2020
• The simple geometric seriality and oneness of this sculpture also triggers minimalism, not to say conceptualism.
  — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2021
• These cannily aestheticized, fluidly heuristic strategies help the movie transcend its original impersonal conceptualism to convey the immediacy and the real-world power of political mythology—and attempt a corrective demythologizing in real time.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 June 2021

Last Updated: 8 Aug 2024