Conceptual art shifted artistic value from objects to ephemeral processes and ideas

Evidence

However much Glueck enjoyed reporting the AWC meeting, she made a crucial point: The changes advanced suggested a shift in the nature of art, by placing processes and ideas over objects, art would be “more concerned with effects (however ephemeral) than with collectability.” (It was what was already being called Conceptual Art, theorized by Sol LeWitt and promoted by the twenty-eight-year-old Bronx-born gallery director Seth Siegelaub.) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1440

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Conceptual Art as prioritizing ideas and effects over collectible objects — useful as a precise boundary for what the counterculture art scene was actually producing.
• XREF: connects to: Crystallization and decrystallization shift the symbolic value of objects I perceive — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1382; The objects that nourished an artistic movement vanish when their production economy changes — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 209