Beyond the Bicycle: Conceptual Art from Duchamp to LeWitt by Cynthia Roznoy Ph.D.

In 1913 Marcel Duchamp mounted a bicycle wheel on a kitchen stool and startled the art world when he declared the work a piece of art. His assertion that the idea behind the work was more valuable than the process of execution led to Sol LeWitt’s influential essay, “Paragraphs on Conceptual Art” in 1967 which described the physicality of art as secondary. Curator Dr. Roznoy will present an illustrated lecture.