'TAKEN TO AS DEEP AS THE SEA CAN BE', Lawrence Weiner

Artwork details

Artist

Lawrence Weiner (born 1942)

Title

TAKEN TO AS DEEP AS THE SEA CAN BE

Date 2005

MediumVinyl wall text

Dimensionsoverall display dimensions variable

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Purchased 2005

Reference

T12039

Not on display

Summary

Lawrence Weiner is one of the chief protagonists in the development of Conceptual Art. In the 1960s he was a key figure in expanding the definition of a work of art. Along with his contemporaries including Joseph Kosuth (born 1945; see Clock (One and Five), English/Latin Version 1965, Tate T01909) and Douglas Huebler (1924-1997; see Variable Piece No. 44 1971, Tate P07234), Weiner challenged the notion that an artwork had to consist of a definite physical object, contending instead that it could comprise a concept or idea with which the viewer would be invited to engage. Weiner’s practice focuses on this interaction between artwork and viewer or, in his terminology, the ‘receiver’ of the work of art… (read more)