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The works are also published as a set of CIDOC-CRM-correct Linked Art (API 1.0) records — digital objects, a textual work, a group, a concept, a collection set, and a provenance activity — each with a HAL _links block and served as application/ld+json.", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "base": "https://www.metaconceptualart.com/", "wikidataEntityBase": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/", "gettyVocabBase": "https://vocab.getty.edu/page/", "linkedArtBase": "https://www.metaconceptualart.com/data/linked-art/", "linkedArtDiscovery": "https://www.metaconceptualart.com/data/linked-art/activity-stream.json", "linkedArtRecords": [ { "id": "site-as-artwork.json", "type": "DigitalObject", "label": "The Website Itself" }, { "id": "eight-sentences.json", "type": "LinguisticObject", "label": "Eight Sentences On Metaconceptual Art" }, { "id": "construction-museum.json", "type": "DigitalObject", "label": "Construction of the Museum as Concept" }, { "id": "collection.json", "type": "Set", "label": "Metaconceptual Art — Collection" }, { "id": "sun-and-rain-works.json", "type": "Group", "label": "Sun & Rain Works" }, { "id": "concept-metaconceptual-art.json", "type": "Type", "label": "Metaconceptual Art (concept)" }, { "id": "provenance-publication.json", "type": "Activity", "label": "Publication of Metaconceptual Art (2026)" } ], "groveArtNote": "Grove Art Online IDs (Oxford) are recorded for reference; the resource is subscription-gated, so the site links to the open Getty vocab URIs.", "prefixes": { "work": "Artwork or site-native work", "concept": "Defined concept or term", "source": "Person, text, or origin cited by the work", "system": "Structural layer of the meta-museum", "role": "A position activated within the system", "record": "Revision, citation, or provenance record" }, "nodes": [ { "id": "work:site-as-artwork", "type": "Artwork", "label": "The Website Itself", "description": "The public page treated as the artwork: a surface where language, navigation, metadata, revision, and viewing conditions become material.", "wikidata": null, "linkedArt": "data/linked-art/site-as-artwork.json" }, { "id": "work:eight-sentences", "type": "Artwork", "label": "Eight Sentences On Metaconceptual Art", "description": "A sentence sequence after Sol LeWitt framing Metaconceptual Art as a field of form, institution, market, history, medium, access, and life.", "wikidata": null, "linkedArt": "data/linked-art/eight-sentences.json" }, { "id": "work:construction-museum", "type": "Artwork", "label": "Construction of the Museum as Concept", "description": "The museum appears inside the artwork as something still being built: institutional authority shown as architecture, ornament, labor, and frame.", "wikidata": null, "linkedArt": "data/linked-art/construction-museum.json" }, { "id": "concept:conceptual-art", "type": "Concept", "label": "Conceptual art", "description": "Contemporary art movement that shifts attention from the handmade object to the idea.", "wikidata": "Q203209", "getty": { "aat": "300264827" }, "groveArt": "T018962" }, { "id": "concept:institutional-frame", "type": "Concept", "label": "Institutional critique", "description": "Artistic practice that treats the museum, market, gallery, and frame as the material of the work.", "wikidata": "Q6041145", "getty": null, "groveArt": "T2086985" }, { "id": "concept:systems-art", "type": "Concept", "label": "Systems art", "description": "Art influenced by cybernetics and systems theory, foregrounding relation, process, and feedback over the discrete object.", "wikidata": "Q919251", "getty": { "aat": "300047869" }, "groveArt": "T082850" }, { "id": "concept:net-art", "type": "Concept", "label": "Internet art", "description": "Art that uses the website, protocol, page, and browser as its artistic site.", "wikidata": "Q1569950", "getty": { "aat": "300419940" }, "groveArt": "T2287852" }, { "id": "concept:readymade", "type": "Concept", "label": "Found object / readymade", "description": "Art created from undisguised, often modified, objects designated as art by context rather than craft.", "wikidata": "Q572916", "getty": { "aat": "300047210" }, "groveArt": "T063150" }, { "id": "concept:provenance", "type": "Concept", "label": "Provenance", "description": "The traceable chronology of ownership, custody, and lineage of an object, idea, or claim.", "wikidata": "Q1773840", "getty": { "aat": "300055863" }, "groveArt": "T069868" }, { "id": "concept:knowledge-graph", "type": "Concept", "label": "Knowledge graph", "description": "An information repository structured as a graph of entities and relationships, the form the meta-museum takes.", "wikidata": "Q33002955", "getty": null, "groveArt": null }, { "id": "source:lewitt", "type": "Source", "label": "Sol LeWitt", "description": "American artist (1928-2007); 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