![The Fox cover issue 2 1975](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/The_Fox_cover_issue_2_1975.jpg)
''The Fox'' was a
conceptual art
Conceptual art, also referred to as conceptualism, is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic, technical, and material concerns. Some works of conceptual art, sometimes called insta ...
magazine
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founded in 1975 by
Sarah Charlesworth
Sarah Edwards Charlesworth (March 29, 1947 – June 25, 2013) was an American conceptual artist and photographer. She is considered part of The Pictures Generation, a loose-knit group of artists working in New York in the late 1970s and early 1 ...
and
Joseph Kosuth
Joseph Kosuth (; born January 31, 1945), an American conceptual artist, lives in New York and London, . It ran for three issues from 1975–76, and "in its short span ... contained some of the sharpest art writing of the period, and articulated new modes of artistic collaboration that shifted focus away from the idea of the individual creative genius. Before long, however, differences of political approach among the members—whose politics spanned the radical left from
Maoism
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to
Anarchism
Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical of all justifications for authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including, though not necessa ...
—and the insistence of the art world in focusing on certain group members brought ''The Fox'' to a close."
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Magazines established in 1975
Magazines disestablished in 1976
Visual arts magazines published in the United States
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