Joseph Kosuth

Born in 1945, in United States
Lives and works in Rome (Italy)

In the late 1960s, Joseph Kosuth began challenging the very necessity of a work’s materiality. Language is at the core of Kosuth’s work; it is both a plastic tool and his field of investigation.

Biography

Among his early pieces, One and Three Chairs (1965), simultaneously depicts a chair, a photograph of a chair, and its dictionary definition, establishing equivalency between the object, the image of the object, and the concept of the object. Self-Defined in Five Colors (1966) is one of the best examples of his approach.

Bibliographic resources

Guercio, Gabriele, Lyotard, Jean-François. Art after philosophy and after : collected writings, 1966-1990. Cambridge : MIT Press, 2002. 978-0-262-11157-7

Monk, Ray. "Joseph Kosuth" in Concetto, corpo e sogno=Concept, body and dream : Castello di Rivoli Museo d'arte contemporanea, [Rivoli-Torino, 29 maggio-30 luglio 2006]. Rivoli : Museo d'arte contemporanea, 2006. livret [s.p] Joseph Kosuth. Rivoli : Museo d'arte contemporanea, 2006.

Loyrette, Henri ; Bernadac, Marie-Laure ; Welchman, John C. Joseph Kosuth : ni apparence ni illusion : [exposition, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 22 octobre 2009-21 juin 2010]. Paris ; Gand : Musée du Louvre ; MER, 2010. 978-2-35031-277-4

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Self-defined in five colors, 1966

Joseph Kosuth

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From 20 February 2019 to 26 August 2019

A Vision for Painting

The Fondation Louis Vuitton displays a new selection of 70 works from the collection and gathers 23 international artists from the 1960s to the present day around one main theme : painting.

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