sᴇʟᴇᴄᴛᴇᴅ ᴀʀᴛᴡᴏʀᴋ: ᴊᴏsᴇᴘʜ ᴋᴏsᴜᴛʜ, ᴏɴᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜʀᴇᴇ ᴄʜᴀɪʀs, 1965

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             Early Career

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Joseph Kosuth - born 1945 in Toledo, Ohio

age 10-17: Toledo Museum School of Design

1963 - 1964 lessons from Belgian Line Bloom Draper 

1964 - scholarship to American Center in Paris, met

Alberto Giacometti, Marcel Duchamp

1965 - return to states, enroll at School of Visual Arts

befriend Ad Reinhardt, friend until his death in 1967

1967 - found Museum of Normal Art, teach at SVA

Robert Ryman, On Kawara, Hanne Darboven

all Conceptual artists

1969 - editor of British joural Art-Language, solo

exhibition at Leo Castelli Gallery in NY

1971 - study of anthropology and philosophy at Graduate 

Center of the New School for Social Research

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       Art After Philosophy

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1969 - Art After Philosophy

influence by Marcel duchamp, Donald Judd, Ludwig

Wittengenstein

3 issues of magazine Studio International

cites Ad Reinhardt's writings

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               Analysis

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One and Three Chairs, 1965

wood chair, photo of chair, definition

wood chair on floor, photo and definition on wall

subtitle his work "Art as Idea as Idea"

everything has to do with artist's intentions