Joseph Kosuth
Guests and Foreigners:
Rules and Meanings
Joseph Kosuth:
International Artists Programme
2 March - 30 April
2000
Joseph Kosuth
Play of the Unmentionable
Brooklyn Museum
of Art, 1991
Joseph Kosuth
Guests & Foreigners:
Three Faces of a Correspondence, 2003
Special Exhibition
Gallery
"In 1963, Kosuth enrolled at the Cleveland Art Institute. He spent the following year in Paris and traveling throughout Europe and North Africa. He moved to New York in 1965 and attended the School of Visual Arts there until 1967. The philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, among others, influenced the development of his art from 1965 to 1974. During this period, he explored the idea of language in art." THe
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a r t w o r k : "Joseph Kosuth's work explores the role of meaning in art and, like an archeologist of language and culture, he orders words and ideas from our historical memory into distinct yet intersecting layers of culturally activity-ones that are experienced today." The
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| a u d i e n c e : Kosuth
uses text in his museum installations. The audience can read the text to
reinterprete objects in the museum collection.
a c t i v i t y :Kosuth uses alot of text in his museum installations, use the internet to find other artworks by Kosuth that use text. Print one of these artworks then paste it into your VAPD along with a description of the work. |
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w o r l d : Kosuth like fellow artist Hans Haacke comments on the established modes of representation and interpretation in the museum. |
