Lowe and Buckley conducted the last conceptual study where they examined if freedom and conformity are opposite or simply separate dimensions of dress (1982).
Rand appeals to this "anti-conceptual mentality"—the result of laziness or miseducation to explain the prevalence of thoughtless social conformity, since those who have not mastered higher abstractions are compelled to navigate the social world by imitating the concrete behavior of other people.
Swedish conceptual artist Anna Odell plays herself in this half-intriguing, half-annoying exercise in meta-narrative about conformity, performance and the self-absorption of its director-writer-star.
Some praise it as a conceptual breakthrough; others blast it as a lowest-common-denominator typeface whose use both reflects and perpetuates conformity.
In interviews graphic designers and theorists praise Helvetica as a conceptual breakthrough or blast it as a lowest-common-denominator typeface whose use both reflects and perpetuates conformity.
The conceptual conflicts he dissects throughout the album — pride vs. humility, love vs. lust, fear vs. trust (mostly in God), individuality vs. conformity, and, as Lamar explores in the album's conclusion, "me vs. me" — are easily recognizable.
His lack of artistic conformity--he would not bend to producing fashionable Surrealist-inspired fartastic art or to Brazilian abstract and conceptual art--resulted in the exclusion of his works from a retrospective of Latin-American art mounted in the U.S. and Europe.
Conformity is everything.
Its target is dull conformity.
