Joseph Kosuth

Joseph Kosuth ( born January 31, 1945 in Toledo, Ohio) is an American conceptual artist.

Life and work

Kosuth studied from 1955 to 1962 at the " Toledo Museum School of Arts", 1963 for one year at the " Cleveland Art Institute " and from 1965 to 1967 at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He was the founder and leader of the " Museum of Normal Art". From 1971 to 1972 he studied anthropology and philosophy at the New School for Social Research, New York.

Since 1969 he is also active in journalism. He was 1969 Co-editor of the magazine " Art & Language " and also worked for some time with in the Art & Language group, 1975/77 he was co-editor of "The Fox " and from 1977 to 1978 artistic editor of " Marxistic Perspectives".

He is one of the main representatives and founder of analytical direction of Conceptual Art, ie, he has been " an investigation into the nature of art" ( Kosuth ) and with the problems of sensory perception - the reality of identity and the definition of the object.

His work " One and Three Chairs " (1965) became a major work of conceptual art. In an artistic space installation mode, the " everyday trinity" of word, image and thing of a chair is placed side by side: " real " chair, the same photo and post about it in a dictionary. In the work frame - One and Three ( frame - one and three ), in which the word "frame" three different states correspond to: left as an objet trouvé, a simple wooden frame, in the center hangs a photograph of the object in full size, right next to his verbal definition. In the latter it is a photographic enlargement of the article to the word " frame " from a English- German Dictionary. What is meant here is not the frame as an object, meaning the difference of three different forms of information about an object: an example of the "Visualization of thought processes ".

Kosuth lives in New York where she teaches since 1968 at the " School for Visual Arts". Kosuth also taught at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, to his students include Michel Majerus and Jens Semjan.

Exhibitions (selection)

Retrospectives

Exhibition catalogs

  • Joseph Kosuth: Investigationen about the art & " problem areas " since 1965, 5 books, Kunstmuseum Luzern, 1973
  • Joseph Kosuth: Contributions to conceptual art, Kunsthalle Bremen, 1976
  • Joseph Kosuth: The importance of importance: texts and documentation of Investigationen about art since 1965 in selection, State Gallery of Stuttgart, 1981
  • Exchange of meaning: translation in the work of Joseph Kosuth, Museum van Hedendaagse Art, Antwerp 1989
  • Joseph Kosuth: No thing, No I, No form, no principle ( Are Safe ), installation at the Villa Merkel, Esslingen, 1992, ISBN 3-89322-487-4
  • Joseph Kosuth: Guests and foreigners: Goethe's Italian Journey, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 1999, ISBN 3-87877-800-7
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