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Joseph Kosuth

Joseph Kosuth (Born 1945) was active/lived in New York, Ohio.  Joseph Kosuth is 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 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, focused on what the brain does during sleep when language processing does seemingly illogical things.
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