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These open-ended questions are exactly what Kosuth wanted us to think about when he said that “art is making meaning.” By assembling these three alternative representations, Kosuth turns a simple wooden chair into an object of debate and even consternation, a platform for exploring new meanings.
Joseph Kosuth (; born January 31, 1945) is an American conceptual artist, who lives in New York and London, after having resided in various cities in Europe, including Ghent and Rome.
Joseph Kosuth (American, b.1945) is a pioneering Conceptual and installation artist, known for his language-based works. Born in Toledo, OH, Kosuth studied at Toledo Museum School of Design, and later, at the Cleveland Art Institute. In 1965, Kosuth relocated to New York, where he attended the School of Visual Arts, but he soon abandoned ...
Dec 6, 2023 · Nevertheless, One and Three Chairs is a defining work of conceptual art, a movement that emerged in the mid-1960s and advocated a radically new form of artwork: one whose value, meaning and existence was rooted in its concept, rather than in the work’s physical or material properties.
Joseph Kosuth (b. 1945) is one of the founding pioneers of the 1970s Conceptual art movement. His work explores the role of meaning in art and, like an archaeologist of language and culture, he orders words and ideas from our historical memory into distinct yet intersecting layers of cultural activity—ones that are experienced today.
Joseph Kosuth is one of the pioneers of installation art and conceptual art, a movement which emerged during the 1960s and 1970s and redefined the notion of the art object. Kosuth was among the first artists to employ appropriation strategies, language-based works, photography, installations and public media.
Joseph Kosuth is an American Conceptual artist known for his ongoing investigation into language and its utility within art. View Joseph Kosuth’s 627 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
