Artist conceptual joseph kosuth biography
Artist conceptual joseph kosuth biography
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Joseph Kosuth – Shifting Art from “How” to “Why”
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By Shira Wolfe
“The actual works of art are the ideas.” – Joseph Kosuth
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. He also wrote some of the earliest theoretical texts supporting these approaches. Throughout his career, Kosuth has continually explored the production and role of language and meaning in art.
Joseph Kosuth, New York and Conceptual Art
Kosuth, born in Toledo, Ohio in 1945, moved to New York in 1965 where he enrolled in the School of Visual Arts.
He quickly abandoned painting in favour of conceptual works, which he first showed in 1967 at the exhibition space he co-founded, known as the Mus