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My readings began in chapter 7 which discussed the art of ideas and the media generation. The year 1968 prematurely marked the beginning of the decade of the seventies. In that year political events severely unsettled cultural and social life throughout Europe and the United States. The chapter discussed questions and instructions. Some early conceptual 'actions' were more written instructions than actual performance, a set of proposals which the reader could perform or not, at will. The artists body was an attempt to translate the essential elements of one discipline into another characterized the early work of the New York artist Acconci. The artists worked on their bodies as objects to define the body in space. Ritual dealed with emotions and traditions and expressionism in nature. The artists made their bodies to become living sculptures. To make their bodies into objects. Autobiographies were written about these artists to analytically investigate these artists and their products.