Joseph Kosuth (1945)

Joseph Kosuth

Joseph Kosuth an American conceptual artist, lives in New York and London, after having resided in various cities in Europe, including Ghent and Rome.

Kosuth belongs to a broadly international generation of conceptual artists that began to emerge in the mid-1960s, stripping art of personal emotion, reducing it to nearly pure information or idea and greatly playing down the art object. Along with Lawrence Weiner, On Kawara, Hanne Darboven and others, Kosuth gives special prominence to language. His art generally strives to explore the nature of art rather than producing what is traditionally called "art". Kosuth's works are frequently self-referential.

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