The reasons are probably far more mundane and purely economic.
The "art" until then were simply items conveniently shaped and packaged for
selling and owning, and "proving", ie. certificating originality.
Once the new ever growing crop of, ehm, artists, figured out that their chances
of selling is once in a blue moon, the need for packaging went away.
> Now, it seems to me that much of the conceptual art was
> actually the response
> to this "island." And to do this response, conceptual
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