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Module 6: Text, Language, and Symbol in Conceptual Art delves into the fundamental role of language as not only a medium but as a form of art itself within the abstract and conceptual realm. Unlike traditional visual art forms that rely on imagery, form, and color, this module critically examines how artists utilize written, spoken, and symbolic language to construct, deconstruct, and subvert meaning.
This module traces the evolution of textual integration in visual art, from Dadaist poetry and Futurist manifestos to Fluxus performances, the Language Art Movement, and contemporary digital and algorithmic text art. Here, words do not just describe; they embody presence, identity, resistance, ambiguity, silence, and power.
The shift from image to word in conceptual practice isn’t simply an aesthetic evolution; it represents a paradigm shift in authorship, communication, and the ontology of art itself. Through this lens, language is both content and critique; it becomes visual, spatial, performative, philosophical, and socio-political.
This module will equip you with the theoretical foundations and practical methodologies to explore semiotics, typographic aesthetics, deconstruction, linguistics, signs, scripts, syntax, absence, and slippage of meaning as core tools in conceptual art-making.
Key Topics and Subsections
6.1. Historical Context: Language as Image
Early textual experiments in Cubism, Futurism, and Dada


Kurt Schwitters and Merz poetry


Guillaume Apollinaire’s Calligrammes


The birth of visual poetry


6.2. The Language Art Movement
Joseph Kosuth’s “Art as Idea as Idea”


Lawrence Weiner’s sentence-based sculptures


Jenny Holzer’s truisms and public installations