Nauman's punning title circles back to the conceptual play with words and sight gags that began with Duchamp and Magritte.
One also notes a conceptual play on the view as a slice of life -- cut out, one imagines, as though by a saw belonging to René Magritte.
"Transgressors — both mercenary and conceptual — play a key role in the religious rituals of an electronic media culture," Leary wrote in one particularly angry and self-pitying tirade from federal prison.
His plan was for a "flip-book", with a Beckettian "conceptual play" about the suffering of a monkey and a donkey in a cataclysm called the "Horrors", published back-to-back with a non-fiction essay about the need for representations of the Holocaust beyond historical realism.
Where Hollywood punk was dominated by arty, conceptual bands playing at the Masque club, Black Flag were the first of the suburban bands – hardcore has been called "the blues of the suburbs" for its appeal to prosperous but disaffected kids – who sprang up around the edges of the city, and who attracted a markedly different crowd.
Mr. Ferry, a coal miner's son and former student of conceptual art, plays the deft social climber, but Roxy Music's plush fantasies are not so simple.
Both experiment, the observation of phenomena under conditions that are controlled as precisely as possible, and theory, the formulation of a unified conceptual framework, play essential and complementary roles in the advancement of physics.
Because the conceptual role played by I is the same for both A and B, the meanings of the two utterances of I am 30 years old are the same, even though the referent of I in each case is distinct.
Conceptual analysis plays a modest role on the empiricist account.
So apriori conceptual analysis plays a crucial role in vindicating metaphysical reductions (Jackson 1994 1998aa).
