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What is Conceptual Art?
Chocolate syrup, hair dye, bicycle wheels, lists of instructions? Is that the stuff of art? It can be. Conceptual art -- art that's rooted in ideas -- can seem very un-art-like at times.


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Tom Friedman
Tom Friedman takes ordinary, humble materials -- toilet paper, laundry detergent, bubble gum, toothpicks, and even dust -- and transforms them into art.


Tom Friedman
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Yoko Ono
John Lennon once said, "Yoko Ono is the world's most famous unknown artist." Ono was a founding member of the mid-century art group Fluxus, whose members included such conceptual granddaddies as John Cage and Marcel Duchamp.


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®™ark
Since ®™ark (pronounced "artmark") formed in 1993, this anonymous group of artists, activists, and agent-provocateurs have sponsored a wide range of projects designed to expose and challenge the very fabric of corporate culture.


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