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Famous Artist #27

Joseph Kosuth


Born 1945 and is 75 years old

He is an American conceptual artist.

Attended at Toledo Museum School of Design as well as studied under Line Bloom Draper privately. Enrolled at Cleveland Institute of Art on a scholarship. 1967 attended SVA in NYC. Also while in NY he studied anthropology and philosophy at New School of Social Research.

While at SVA he made a big impact and his reputation grew he was removed as a student and became a teacher.

He founded the Museum of Normal Art.

Helped coin the conceptual art movement.

art, as he put it, "was not a question of forms and colors but one of the production of meaning.

He has been a teacher at schools but is Currently he is Professor at the Kunstakademie Munich and at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura.