"Concept art was meant to replace all of mathematics with an endeavor which involved a Rorschach-blot semantics; and which did not claim to be cognitive, at least not in the inherited sense. Mathematics had already been disconnected from claims of realism; and I was extending that disavowal to a disconnection from claims of a priori truth. Concept art's value consisted in beauty, a beauty which was non-sentimental. Later I would say that its value consisted in "the invention of new mental abilities." Popularity had nothing to do with whether this avenue was worth taking."
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Musicians from the United StatesPhilosophers from the United StatesPeople from North CarolinaConceptual artists
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Henry Flynt. "The Crystallization of Concept Art in 1961," at henryflynt.org, 1994.
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