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One and Three Chairs

1965

Joseph Kosuth

Material / technique
Wood folding chair, mounted photograph of a chair, and mounted photographic enlargement of the dictionary definition of "chair"
Attribution / role
Collection / source
The Museum of Modern Art

Artwork notes

Artist-wide context

He placed objects, photographs and definitions together to ask how each one gives us meaning.

Materials, marks and colour

Artist-wide context; individual works may differ.

Media and surface

Objects, photographic panels and printed text carry different kinds of evidence.

Marks and structure

Juxtaposition replaces a conventional painted composition.

Palette and light

Colour is often subordinate to legibility and the relationship between forms of description.

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