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Conceptual art is entirely word-bound. It is, in fact, the kind of art that is exhausted in its verbal description.

Alexander Stoddart

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Alexander Stoddart
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: January 1
Sculptor
Edinburgh
Scotland
Sandy Stoddart
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