Zone de Sensibilité Picturale Immatérielle is an artist's book and performance by the French artist Yves Klein. The work involved the sale of documentation of ownership of empty space, taking the form
A receipt used to certify the purchase of a Zone de Sensibilité Picturale Immatérielle. This copy was bought by Jacques Kugel on 7 December 1959
Yves Klein and Dino Buzzati engaged in the ritual transfer of immateriality, 26 January 1962
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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
Zone de Sensibilité Picturale Immatérielle
…capitalist trading strategies and illuminates his ideas about the indefinable, incalculable value of art." The piece is often seen as an early example of conceptual art. Whilst on a trip to Cascia, Klein had designed an aeromagnetic sculpture, partially as a response to Jean Cocteau's assertion when visiting his…
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.