CONCEPTUALISM

The causes and methods of an explication of concepts «nothingness», «vacuum», «non-existence» in minimalism and conceptualism art are parsed. The bases of a lack-aesthetics are considered. It is supposed, that in modern art conceptualism and minimalism appear as syncretic derivations, thanks to plural re-using of a subject and a mode nothingness.

In article are analyzed and compared features of decisions of «universalies problem» offered by such scholastic traditions as realism, conceptualism and nominalism played a key role in becoming of problem field of logical-semiotic researches medieval grammatica speculativa.