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Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or "dematerialized."

— Lucy R. Lippard Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 (1973)

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