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In the late 1960s, several artists involved in the development of Conceptual Art (notably the Americans Joseph Kosuth and Sol LeWitt, and the Anglo/American group Art & Language) put forward a substantial challenge to the conventional belief that aesthetic judgments are valid within art. Although this way of thinking was not entirely new, the late sixties marked a time when artists themselves began to argue for a separation between aesthetics and art.. I believe …

…in turn demands an active response from its viewers. Conceptualism has created a very huge emphasis on the thought process of art and this gives artists immense freedom in their challenging existing attitudes. The factors of conceptual art gives the art world added depth and meaning and Reconstruction's of the past, projection's of the future, criticisms of society and statements of philosophical outrage can be made and finally heard through the expression of Conceptual Art.