material concepts

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Alma Siedhoff-Buscher, Bauhaus Building Block Set, circa 1923

Every art is material—and can be only material. The possibility of using concepts, projects, ideas and political messages in art was opened by the philosophers of the “linguistic turn” precisely because they asserted the material character of thinking itself. Thinking was understood by these philosophers as the operation and manipulation of language.

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Very interesting!