Vacant Lot of Cabbages
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The Vacant Lot of Cabbages was an art intervention by artist Barry Thomas in Wellington, New Zealand. On 4 January 1978, Thomas planted 150 cabbage seedlings spelling the word "CABBAGE" on an empty si
Thomas plants the first of 150 cabbage seedlings after giving a speech about how this land had not seen food crops for well over a century. Photo, Justin Keen
Facsimile of Thomas' original sketch for the Vacant lot of Cabbages made while convalescing from an operation in hospital in late 1977.
Wellington City Council Memo ordering the clearance of the site, "but the cabbage patch is probably harmless and can, I think, remain for a while at least." WCC archives
People begin arriving for the Last Roxy Show including the drought horses that towed the Tree cottage. Dame Gaylene Preston can be seen taking her polaroid photos. Thomas Photo.
Conceptual art
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Conceptual art, also referred to as conceptualism, is art in which the concept or idea involved in the work are prioritized equally to or more than traditional aesthetic, technical, and material conce
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917. Photograph by Alfred Stieglitz
Robert Rauschenberg, Portrait of Iris Clert 1961
Art & Language, Art-Language Vol. 3 Nr. 1, 1974
Lawrence Weiner. Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2005.