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Conceptual Art Online - Christina Barton - Traces and Boundaries (2674 words) |
 | While art photographers were arguing their case for a place for photography in the pantheon of high art, on the grounds of its intrinsic formal qualities, post-object artists were merely using the camera as a recording device in their moves away from that institutional framework. |
| Thus the utter separation of the art object from reality, on which modernist autonomy depends, was undone and the world was brought into the work in ways which forced the abandonment of a definition of art as being discrete, bounded, separate. |
| Art's mediating role in the social realm was one focus for post-object artists' critique, another was to examine the status of the art object in both ontological and epistemological terms. |
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