The practices of visual artists can never be decontextualised from
language. Firstly, artists are constantly in dialogue with their
peers, dealers, critics, and audiences about their creative
activities and these interactions impact on the work they produce.
Secondly, artists' conceptualisations of what artistic practice
encompasses are always shaped by wider social discourses. These
discourses, however, and their manifestation in the language of
everyday life are subject to continual change, and potentially
reshape the way that artists conceptualise their practices. Using a
235,000-word diachronic corpus developed from artists' interviews
and statements, this Element investigates shifts in artists' use of
language to conceptualise their art practice from 1950 to 2019. It
then compares these shifts to see if they align with changes in the
wider English lexicon and whether there might be a relationship
between everyday language change and the aesthetic and conceptual
developments that take place in the art world.
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