The avant-garde turned from street film to dematerialized conceptual art in 1967

Evidence

Wavelength epitomized a shift among New York avant-garde filmmakers, away from the streets. Radical artists, however, were moving out of the gallery and beyond the object—to “convert [materiality] into an idea,” as Sol LeWitt wrote in his manifesto “Paragraphs on Conceptual Art,” published in the June 1967 issue of Artforum. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1124

Categorization

• DEFINE: Dates and locates the conceptual turn against a specific backdrop of 1960s art-world currents.