In 1961 Henry Flynt wrote the essay ‘Concept Art’, published in An Anthology in 1963.
The ‘event texts’ written by George Brecht and Yoko Ono around 1960 can be considered as early conceptual art works.
Conceptual Art as an art movement came up in the late 1960s.
Lit.: Lucy Lippard, ‘Six Years: The dematerialization of the art object from 1966 to 1972’, New York, 1973.
