3. Art after Philosophy’. Joseph Kosuth. The fact that it has recently become fashionable for physicists themselves to be sympa~ theeic towards religion marks. Joseph Kosuth an American conceptual artist, lives in New York and London, after having . His seminal text ‘Art after Philosophy’, written in , had a major impact on the thinking about art at the time and has been seen since as a kind. Joseph Kosuth in: Arthur R. Rose, “Four Interviews,” Arts Magazine (February, ). Joseph Kosuth, “Introduction” in Art After Philosophy and After: Collected.
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The piece need not be built.
Kosuh makes them tautological. His first conceptual work Leaning Glassconsisted of an object, a photograph of it and dictionary definitions of the words denoting it. Meaning is always a presupposition of function. The whole world is there to be seen, and the whole world can watch man walk on the moon from their living rooms.
And the propositions in which we record the observations that verify these hypotheses are themselves hypotheses which are subject to the test of further sense experience. Art is art-as-art and everything else is everything else.
Art is not what is not art. Clearly there is a sympathetic relationship between this opinion and that extolled by Kosuth. If you make paintings you are already accepting not questioning the nature of art.
U B U W E B :: Joseph Kosuth – Art After Philosophy
It was also about concepts. Kosuth belongs to a broadly international generation of conceptual artists that began to emerge in the mids, stripping art of personal emotion, reducing it to nearly pure information or idea and greatly playing down the art object.
But we can use a geometry to reason about physical space. In other projects Wikimedia Commons Wikiquote.
Ruth Barker
To say that a geometrical proposition, or a system of geometrical propositions, is false, is to say that it is self-contradictory. Art After Philosophy was written inat a time when America was hung in a moment of considerable political and social afrer.
Art After Philosophy and After Collected Writings, reveals between the lines a definition of “art” of which Joseph Kosuth meant to assure us. Conceptual artists and Sol LeWitt once again changed our notion of what we can and should consider art. In a sense then he is a primitive.
He continued to exhibit in Venice during the Biennale from onwards, with the European Cultural Centre. Accompanying these photographic images are certificates of documentation and ownership not for display indicating that the works can be made and remade for exhibition purposes. A more functional approach to the study of concepts has tended to replace the method of introspection.
With the advent of modern science, aesthetics as a societal value was second to an emphasis on modernity; formalist artwork somehow seemed trivial.
The Philosophy of Art after ‘Art After Philosophy’ « Ruth Barker
To repeat, what art has in common with logic and mathematics is that it is a tautology; i. All that the geometry itself tells us is that if anything can be brought under the definitions, it will also satisfy the theorems. During the same year as Art After Philosophy was written, for example, as well as men landing on the moon, Nixon was inaugurated as the 37th U.
Certainly art or objects of painting and sculpture cannot be expected to compete experientially with this? Yale University ; Cornell University: Perhaps one result of this degree of post-modern layering of experience has been to suggest a definition of art which is far less concrete that that which Art After Philosophy chases, and flexible enough to allow difference to become a strength.
As Sir James Jeans has stated:. Sooner or later the artist is implicated or devoured by politics without even trying. Kosuth himself states that:. If one is questioning the nature of painting, one cannot be questioning the nature of art.
That kick inhibits the significance of the idea being expressed.
Joseph Kosuth
What is the function of art, or the nature of art? He focused on ideas such as volume, transparency and sequences, things he believed, as did the other conceptual artists, equaled aesthetics in importance. Wikiquote has quotations related to: And what does phioosophy taste reflect?
He was unable to define art in so far as such a definition would destroy his private self-referential definition of art.