Conceptual art
The first issue of "Art-Language The Journal of conceptual art"(Volume 1, Number 1, May 1969) is subtitled "The Journal of Conceptual Art". "Art-Language" had, however, brought to light the beginning of a new art movement. While that community was far from a unanimous agreement as to how to define the nature of conceptual art, the editors and most of its historic contributors shared similar opinions about other art movements. Conceptual art was critical of modernism for its bureaucracy and its historicism, and of minimalism for its philosophical conservatism. The practice of conceptual art, especially in its early years of origin, was primarily based on theory, and its form, predominately textual.