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However, the relative anonymity and the image of a place in which anything should be possible are indeed the very expressions of publicness.
For African Americans, this leads to a condition of "hypervisibility," in which "the very publicness of black people as a social fact works to undermine the possibility of actually seeing black specificity" (Lubiano 187).
As Alexander Alberro observes: "The conceptual in art means an expanded critique of the cohesiveness and materiality of the art object, a growing wariness towards definitions of artistic practice as purely visual, a fusion of the work with its site and context of display, and an increased emphasis on the possibilities of publicness and distribution" (in Lippard 1973:xvii).
 
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