Joseph Kosuth
| Joseph Kosuth | |
|---|---|
| Born |
January 31, 1945 Toledo, Ohio |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | School of Visual Arts, New York City |
| Known for | Conceptual art |
Joseph Kosuth (/kəˈsuːt, -ˈsuːθ/; born January 31, 1945) is an American conceptual artist. He lives in New York and London, after residing in various cities in Europe, including Ghent, Rome, and Berlin.
Born in Toledo, Ohio, Kosuth had an American mother and a Hungarian father. (A relative, Lajos Kossuth, achieved notability for his role in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.) Joseph Kosuth attended the Toledo Museum School of Design from 1955 to 1962 and studied privately under the Belgian painter Line Bloom Draper. In 1963 Kosuth enrolled at the Cleveland Institute of Art on a scholarship. He spent the following year in Paris and traveled throughout Europe and North Africa. He moved to New York in 1965 and attended the School of Visual Arts there until 1967. From 1971 he studied anthropology and philosophy at the New School for Social Research, New York.
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. He remarked in 1969:
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