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Mosaic 2 Reading, 4/e
Brenda Wegmann
Miki Knezevic
Marilyn Bernstein

Art and Entertainment

Getting Meaning from Context

Based on the context of the article's sentences below, match the lettered definitions with the italicized words from the sentences.

a. exist in great numbers
b. making commercial
c. sets off
d. basic and important
e. ideas
f. suggest
g. relating to artistic beauty and taste
h. specifying in an agreement



1

Although the conceptual art movement really took off in the 1960s, some posit that the first conceptual artist was Marcel Duchamp.
2

Duchamp, by using everyday objects you would find around the house or at a department store, was denying the commodification of art, removing its material value altogether.
3

Like Duchamp, conceptual artists challenge all previously held notions of what art is.
4

Accompanying the series were certificates of documentation and ownership (not on display) stipulating that the pieces could be made and remade for exhibitions as necessary.
5

Kosuth was one of the first artists to so literally spell out the aesthetic shift from things to ideas.
6

In traditional museums, "Do not touch" signs abound.
7

In her 1993 installation titled To Touch, Cardiff has made the act of touching an intrinsic and essential aspect of the work of art.
8

The installation could have easily been called To Hear, as the motion of spectators running their hands over the table triggers a layering of pre-recorded voices and familiar sounds.