One and Three Chairs, a visual depiction of Plato’s Theory of Forms which asserts that abstract ideas, as opposed to physical phenomena, retain the highest and most elementary form of reality.
« Photography, as an invention, was both art and science. The view it gave us of the world was in some measure acceptable because it was a product of our vision of the world;
Joseph Kosuth
Extremely well-read, Kosuth’s work draws a large amount of influence from the psycho-analysis work of Sigmund Freud and Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language; conscious of his status as a ‘white, male artist’, Kosuth studied Anthropology and spent a number of years traveling areas such as Australia, the Peruvian Amazon and the Trobriand Islands – spending ti
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One and Three Chairs, a visual depiction of Plato’s Theory of Forms which asserts that abstract ideas, as opposed to physical phenomena, retain the highest and most elementary form of reality.
« Photography, as an invention, was both art and science. The view it gave us of the world was in some measure acceptable because it was a product of our vision of the world;
Joseph Kosuth
Extremely well-read, Kosuth’s work draws a large amount of influence from the psycho-analysis work of Sigmund Freud and Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language; conscious of his status as a ‘white, male artist’, Kosuth studied Anthropology and spent a number of years traveling areas such as Australia, the Peruvian Amazon and the Trobriand Islands – spending time with natives of these areas, Kosuth studied and experienced the differences in culture, resulting in his text ‘The Artist as Anthropologist’.
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