
JOSEPH KOSUTH
1945, Toledo, Ohio
F / B / S / V / INSTV
| ARTISTS' BOOKS / CATALOGUES AND MULTIPLES | ||
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| Art & Project Bulletin # 014 | art & project | 1969 |
| Art as Idea as Idea | CAYC - Centro de arte y Comunicacion | 1971 |
| Art as Idea as Idea - Brussels, March 1973 | Paul Maenz, Brussels | 1973 |
| A Room with 23 Qualities | Edition Cantz | 1992 |
| Function Funzione Funcion Fonction Funktion | Sperone editore, Torino | 1970 |
| No thing, no self, no form, no principle (was certain) | Edition Cantz | 1993 |
| Notebook on Water 1965-66 [from Artists and Photographs Box] | Multiples, Inc | 1970 |
| Purloined - A Novel [ed 750] | Salon Verlag, Koln | 2000 |
| Two Oxford Reading Rooms (signed, 126/250) | Book Works, London | 1994 |
| Within the Context: Modernism and Critical Practice (ed. 500) | Copure | 1977 |
| Zeno at the edge of the known world | Hungarian Pavilion, Venice 93 | 1993 |
| EXHIBITIONS CURATED BY KOSUTH | ||
| Guide: Special Edition | Isabela Stewart Gardner Museum | 2003 |
| Rules and Meanings: An Installation [2 volumes include interview and discussion with Kosuth of his approach to teaching art] | Fondazione Antonio Ratti / Corso Superior di Arte Visiva 1995 | 1997 |
| The Play of the Unmentionable | The Brooklyn Museum, New York | 1992 |
| EPHEMERA | ||
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| Joseph Kosuth. Art Investigations & "Problematics" 1965 -1973 (announcement card for new publication / order - text) | Paul Maenz, Koln | 1973 |
| Joesph Kosuth, 1970 (postcard - image) | Paul Maenz, Koln | 1976 |
| Joseph Kosuth (exhibition announcement card - text) | Paul Maenz, Koln | 1971 |
| Joseph Kosuth. March 17 (exhibition announcement card - text) | Paul Maenz, Brussels | 1973 |
| Joseph Kosuth. Recent Work: The Nineth Investigation = Proposition 1 (exhibition announcement card - text - with envelope) | Leo Castelli, New York (4 East 77) | 1972 |
| The Tenth Investigation Proposition 7 (exhibition announcement card - text - with envelope) | Sperone Fischer, Rome | 1974 |
| The Tenth Investigation Proposition 5 (exhibition announcement card - text) | Claire L. Copley, Los Angles | 1975 |
| Text/Context (New York) (poster) | Leo Castelli Gallery, New York | 1979 |
| Text/Context (exhibition announcement card - text) | Rudiger Schottle, Munich | 1979 |
| Text/Context (exhibition announcement card - image, billboards) | Paul Maenz, Koln | 1979 |
| The Eighth Investigation (Proposition Three) (exhibition announcement card - text) | Loe Castelli, New York (4 East 77) | 1971 |
| DOCUMENTS AND PUBLICATIONS | ||
| an anti-catalog | Artists Meeting for Cultural Change | 1977 |
| Art Workers Coalition - Open Hearing | Art Workers Coalition | 1969 |
| Dokumente zur Aktuellen Kunst 1967 -1970 [materials from the archives of Harald Szeemann] | Kunstkreis AG Luzern | 1972 |
| Joseph Kosuth: Art Investigations & "Problematics" 1965 -1973 [5 volumes - also in English - documenting his Investigations from 1965 to 1973 / with biography and photographs] | Kunstmuseum Luzern | 1973 |
| What Do You Expect? | Paul Maenz, Koln | 1977 |
| OTHER PUBLICATIONS | ||
| Projects Class (12 artists / 12 cards - submitted to class) | Nova Scotia College of Art and Design | 1969 |
| ARTICLES AND ESSAYS BY KOSUTH | ||
| Replies to Benjamin Buchloh on Conceptual Art [with Seth Siegelaub] | October 57, Summer | 1991 |
| SELECTED CATALOGUES INCLUDING KOSUTH | ||
| A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation [not in exhibition but mentioned in catalogue essay by Anne Rorimer: Photography - Language - Context: Prellude to the 1980s] | The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles | 1989 |
| Ars - Aevi - International Cultural Project | Museum of Contemporary Art, Sarajevo | 1999 |
| Art by Telephone | Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago | 1969 |
| Arte de Sistemas | Museo De Arte Moderno / CAYC - Centro de Arte y Communicacion, Buenos Aires | 1971 |
| Artist and Camera | Art Council of Great Britian | 1980 |
| A View of a Decade 1967-1977 | Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago | 1977 |
| Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940s-1970s | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | 2004 |
| Billboard Art on the Road | MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts | 1999 |
| Breakthroughs: Avant-Garde Artists in Europe and America, 1950-1990 | Wexner Center for the Arts | 1991 |
| Conceptual Art Conceptual Aspects | The New York Cultural Center | 1970 |
| Content: A Contemporary Focus 1974-1984 | Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden | 1984 |
| Detente | Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna | 1994 |
| Deurle 11/7/73 (ed. 250) | La Cambre, Brussels | 1973 |
| Documenta 6 [curator: Manfred Schneckenburger] | Kassel, Germany | 1977 |
| Documenta 7 | Kassel, Germany | 1982 |
| Documenta 9 [curator: Jan Hoet] | Kassel | 1992 |
| 18'6" x 6'9" x 11'21/2" x 47' x 11 3/16" x 29'8 1/2" x 31' 9 3/16 [poster] | San Francisco Art Institute | 1969 |
| 557,087 | Seattle | 1969 |
| Focus 2: Minimal Art, Concept Art, Land Art and Arte Povera [brochure] | Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig | 2004 |
| Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s | Queens Museum of Art | 1999 |
| Guggenheim International Exhibition 1971 | Guggenheim Museum | 1971 |
| Image World: Art and Media Culture | Whitney Museum for American Art | 1989 |
| Information | MoMA, NY | 1970 |
| Inquires: Language in Art | Art Museum of Ontatio | 1990 |
| January 5 - 31, 1969 | Seth Siegelaub | 1969 |
| Joseph Kosuth / Robert Morris | Bradford Junior College | 1969 |
| July - August - September 1969 | Seth Siegelaub | 1969 |
| July / August Exhibition Book | Studio International | 1970 |
| Knowledge: Aspects of Conceptual Art | University Art Museum, Santa Barbara | 2002 |
| Konzeption - Conception: Documentation of today's art tendencies | Westdeutscher Verlag | 1969 |
| La Biennale di Venezia 1976 - From Nature to Art, from Art to Nature - The Entropy of Art | Venice | 1976 |
| la Biennale di Venezia 45: National Pavilion - Hungary | Venice, various locations | 1993 |
| 955,000 | Vancouver | 1970 |
| 1967: At the Crossroads | Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia | 1987 |
| One Month: March, 1969 | Seth Siegelaub | 1969 |
| Prospect 69 | Kunsthalle Dusseldorf | 1969 |
| Reconsidering the Object of Art: 1965-1975 | The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles | 1995 |
| Robert Barry, Victor Burgin, Hamish Fulton, Gilbert & George, Hans Haacke, John Hilliard, Kosuth/Charlesworth, David Tremlett, Lawrence Weiner | Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh | 1976 |
| Rooms P.S.1 | P.S.1 | 1977 |
| Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art from 1951 to the Present | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | 2004 |
| '60 - '80: Attitudes / Concepts / Images | Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam | 1982 |
| Software: Information Technology: Its New Meaning for Art | The Jewish Museum | 1970 |
| Strategies for the Last Painting / Strategies for the Next Painting | Wolff Gallery, New York | 1991 |
| Symptoms of Interference | Camden Arts Center, London | 1994 |
| The Real Big Picture | The Queens Museum, New York | 1986 |
| The Xerox Book | Seth Siegelaub / John Wendler | 1968 |
| 13 >Projekt '74< Artists | Paul Maenz | 1974 |
| Wall Works: Wall Installations in Editions 1992-93 | Edition Schellmann, Koln and New York | 1993 |
| When Attitudes Become Form (Bern and London) | Kunsthalle Bern | 1969 |
| Whitney Biennial 1987 [Richard Armstrong, Richard Marshall, and Lisa Phillips] | Whitney Museum of American Art | 1987 |
| Word as Image: American Art 1960-1990 | Milwaukee Art Museum | 1990 |
| SELECTED BOOKS INCLUDING KOSUTH | ||
| Alternative Art New York 1965-1985 | The Drawing Center / University of Minnesota Press | 2002 |
| Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation | The New Museum of Contemporary Art | 1984 |
| Art and Artifact: The Museum as Medium | Thames & Hudson | 2001 |
| Art in the Age of Mass Media | Westview Press | 1994 |
| Art Recollections:Artists' Interviews and Statements in the Nineties | Danilo Montanari & Exit & Zona Archives Editori | 1997 |
| Artists Talk: 1969-1977 | NSCAD, Nova Scotia | 2004 |
| Art Povera: Eartheworks/Impossible Art/Actual Art/ Conceptual Art | Germano Celant | 1969 |
| But is it Art? The Spirit of Art as Activism | Bay Press | 1995 |
| Changing: Essays in Art Criticism [Lucy Lippard] | E. P. Dutton & Co. | 1971 |
| Collectivism After Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination After 1945 | University of Minnesota Press | 2007 |
| Conceptual Art | Phaidon | 1998 |
| Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology | MIT Press | 1999 |
| Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity | MIT Press | 2003 |
| Conceptuallism in Latin American Art: Didactics of Liberation | University of Texas Press | 2007 |
| 5000 Artists Return to Artists Space: 25 Years | Artists Space / D.A.P. Press | 1998 |
| From the Center: feminist essays on women's art | Dutton | 1976 |
| Great Western Salt Works: essays on the meaning of Post-Formalist art | George Braziller | 1974 |
| Idea Art: A Critical Anthology | Dutton | 1973 |
| Jack Goldstein and the CalArts Mafia | Minneola Press | 2003 |
| Minimal Art: A Critical Survey | E.P. Dutton & Co. | 1968 |
| New Art in the 60s and 70s: Redefining Reality | Thames and Hudson | 2001 |
| On the Beaten Tack: tourism, art, and culture | The New Press, New York | 1999 |
| Out of the Box: The Reinvention of Art, 1965-1975 | School of Visual Arts | 2000 |
| Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory | Pantheon | 1983 |
| Six Years: The dematerialization of the art object.... | Praeger | 1973 |
| SoHo: The Rise and Fall of an Artists' Colony | Routledge | 2003 |
| Surface Tension: Prolematics of Site | Errant Bodies Press | 2003 |
| The Context of Art / The Art of Context | Navado Press, Trieste | 2004 |
| The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art | MIT Press | 2003 |
| Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings | University of California Press | 1996 |
| Thinking About Exhibitions | Routledge | 1996 |
| Words To Be Looked At: Language in 1960s Art | MIT Press | 2007 |
| SELECTED PERIODICALS INCLUDING KOSUTH | ||
| Art & Text # 16 | Summer | 1984 |
| Artforum [Los Angeles Report] | December | 1968 |
| Artforum [Real Time Systems] | September | 1969 |
| Artforum [Article on "Rooms" exhibition at P.S.1] | October | 1976 |
| Art in America, [Article: Impossible Art] | May-June | 1969 |
| Art in America, [A Critic's Diary: The New York Art Year by David Bourdon: pertaining to the picket at the Whitney related to the Rockefeller collection exhibition] | July-August | 1977 |
| Art in America [Report from Italy: Count Panza Divests] | December | 1984 |
| Art International [Letter from Holland (including: discussion of Square Peg in Round Holes and When Attitudes Become Form] | May 20 | 1969 |
| art-language vo.1 #2 | art & language | 1970 |
| Flash Art [Turin in the 1970s] | October | 1991 |
| October 57 | Summer | 1991 |
| On Site 5/6 - On Energy | SITE, Inc., New York | 1974 |
| The Fox #1 | art & language | 1975 |
| The Fox #2 | art & language | 1975 |
| The Fox #3 | art & language | 1976 |
| Trans> arts.cultures.media # 7 [included in article: Knowing Can Be Destroying] | Passim Inc. | 2000 |
| TriQuarterly # 32 | TriQuarterly | 1975 |
| EXHIBITION REVIEWS | ||
| Joseph Kosuth at Castelli | Arts Magazine, November | 1971 |
| Joseph Kosuth at Castelli | Art in America, January-February | 1973 |
| Joseph Kosuth at Lia Rumma, Naples | Flash Art, October | 1991 |