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Born 1945 Toledo, Ohio. Known for: Conceptual, caligraphic installation.
Born in Toledo, Ohio, Joseph Kosuth is one of the first Conceptual artists, concerned with the mechanics of meaning in language, especially words used in various contexts. He has done installations... Read full biography
Born in Toledo, Ohio, Joseph Kosuth is one of the first Conceptual artists, concerned with the mechanics of meaning in language, especially words used in various contexts. He has done installations with text, quotes, and definitions sometimes combined with photographs and objects. In 1969, when he... Read full biography
Born in Toledo, Ohio, Joseph Kosuth is one of the first Conceptual artists, concerned with the mechanics of meaning in language, especially words used in various contexts. He has done installations with text, quotes, and definitions sometimes combined with photographs and objects. In 1969, when he was 24 years old, Kosuth wrote an essay about art that was published and "became a founding text of Conceptualism". He asserted that philosophy was dead and was replaced by art whose purpose was to... Read full biography
Born in Toledo, Ohio, Joseph Kosuth is one of the first Conceptual artists, concerned with the mechanics of meaning in language, especially words used in various contexts. He has done installations with text, quotes, and definitions sometimes combined with photographs and objects. In 1969, when he was 24 years old, Kosuth wrote an essay about art that was published and "became a founding text of Conceptualism". He asserted that philosophy was dead and was replaced by art whose purpose was to deliver information with disposable materials, which were "little more than historical curiosities". In this way, art became an ascetic faith and fulfills spiritual needs. Maturing as an artist, Joseph Kosuth held to his conceptualist theories but also... Read full biography
Born in Toledo, Ohio, Joseph Kosuth is one of the first Conceptual artists, concerned with the mechanics of meaning in language, especially words used in various contexts. He has done installations with text, quotes, and definitions sometimes combined with photographs and objects. In 1969, when he was 24 years old, Kosuth wrote an essay about art that was published and "became a founding text of Conceptualism". He asserted that philosophy was dead and was replaced by art whose purpose was to deliver information with disposable materials, which were "little more than historical curiosities". In this way, art became an ascetic faith and fulfills spiritual needs. Maturing as an artist, Joseph Kosuth held to his conceptualist theories but also expanded his beliefs so that he is not committed to only one approach. Many of his late 20th and early 21st century works are dreamlike, focuse... Read full biography
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Keywords (19)
Art Method
- •Conceptual
- •Installation Art
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
- •Colored Pencil
- •Ink
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Neon Light, Projected Light, Illumination
- •Painting on Glass, Glass Design, Studio Glass Art
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
- •Pencil, Graphite Drawing
- •Wood for carving, sculpture, and/or surface
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Allegory, Metaphor, Parable
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
Awards/Recognition
- •Artists In Residence Program, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Abstract Sculpture Specialty
Exhibition of Museum
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art