Okay okay, so according to the author, the idea of the concept is the most important thing about conceptual art. "The idea becomes a machine that makes the art".
It seems odd to me and i don't expect to get the gist of Conceptual Art right off the bat, but LeWitt discusses the "concept" and the "idea" as being most important and then sets terms as to what those may be. I wonder... Does Concept art negate the outcome of the action of the art? In dealing with the differences between Perceptual and Conceptual art, would it really matter what was used as a medium to a conceptual artist? Or would a concept/idea grounded in classic form negate itself entirely from being conceptual art? I am no doubt biased within the medium of art I prefer to live in.
A Child's History of Fluxus, by Dick Higgins
I really do like the idea that a splash in a puddle or the feel of grit under my shoe as I walk, can be used as art and be argued as equally beautiful in comparison to any Caravaggio painting or Bernini sculpture. I enjoy that as soon as the high-dollar gallery began to buy into Fluxus, they could never obtain it. "Fancy people began copying Fluxus things and ideas. But they tried to make fancy things out of them - and that changed them."
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