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Joseph Kosuth (1945) 
Professions: Photographer
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Joseph Kosuth
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Joseph Kosuth , b. 1945 Five Words in Yellow Neon yellow neon tubing
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JOSEPH KOSUTH
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Joseph Kosuth (b. 1945)
Biography: Kosuth
(b Toledo, OH, 31 Jan 1945). American conceptual artist and writer. He was deeply interested in philosophy and the social sciences and conducted a sustained, methodical inquiry into the rules that govern art. He trained at the Toledo Museum School of Design (1955–62), also taking private lessons, and completed his studies as a painter at the Cleveland Art Institute (1963–4). In 1965 he began to produce works with a basis in language, some fashioned from neon and glass, others linking objects, images, and texts into simple and self-referential series. The work One and Three Chairs (1965; Cologne, Paul Maenz Gal.), for example, consists of a full-scale photograph of a chair, an actual chair and a dictionary definition of the word ‘chair’ lined in a row, together forming a closed system that resists any kind of transcendent meaning.
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