The term was coined in 1967 by artist Sol LeWitt, who gave the new genre its name in his essay "Paragraphs on Conceptual Art," in which he wrote: "The idea itself, though not visual, is as much a work of art like any finished product.
Conceptual art, sometimes simply called conceptualism, was one of several 20th-century art movements that emerged during the 1960s, emphasizing theoretical ideas and practices rather than the creation of visual forms. The term was coined in 1967 by artist Sol LeWitt, who gave the new genre its name in his essay "Paragraphs on Conceptual Art," in which he wrote: "The idea itself, though not visual, is as much a work of art like any finished product.