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Joseph Kosuth: À propos (réflecteur de réflecteur)
Joseph Kosuth: À propos (réflecteur de réflecteur) À propos (réflecteur de réflecteur), light and text installation by Joseph Kosuth, 2004; at the Art Unlimited exhibition in Basel, Switzerland, 2005.

Joseph Kosuth

American artist
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January 31, 1945, Toledo, Ohio, U.S. (age 79)

Joseph Kosuth (born January 31, 1945, Toledo, Ohio, U.S.) is an American artist and theoretician, a founder and leading figure of the conceptual art movement. He is known for his interest in the relationship between words and objects, between language and meaning in art. Kosuth studied at the Toledo Museum School of Design (1955–62), the Cleveland Institute of Art (1963–64), and the School of Visual Arts in New York (1965–67). In 1965 he created his first conceptual work, One and Three Chairs, which displayed an actual chair, its photograph, and a text with the definition of the word chair. This ...(100 of 288 words)

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