Victor Burgin on Re-reading Images
'There's no point in making any more images' says artist and writer Victor Burgin
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The Separateness of Things, Victor Burgin
Burgin explores the relationship of his own works to Hopper's painting
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Artist
Victor Burgin
born 1941
Artwork
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Victor Burgin
1991
Conceptual photography
Conceptual photography is photography that illustrates an idea
Conceptual art
Conceptual art is art for which the idea (or concept) behind the work is more important than the finished art object. It emerged as an art movement in the 1960s and the term usually refers to art made from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s.