The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.
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Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.
I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.
I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.
All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.
The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.
Artistic development is a thing of the past, sadly.
I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.
But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools.
In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what art can be and how art is made.
What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding its territory.
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