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Word, Sentence, Paragraph (Z.&N.) in German
Date1986

Artist Joseph Kosuth (geboren 1945 in Toledo)

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Object typeLight installation
MediumWallpaper, neon tubes, cables, power transformers
Dimensions
230 × 280 × 12 cm
Signatureunlabelled
Inventory number11180
Location Currently not on display
Credit Line2014 Schenkung aus Privatbesitz
A cofounder of Conceptual Art, the American artist Joseph Kosuth, who emerges on the scene in the 1960s, pursues a radically analytical approach informed both by Ludwig Wittgenstein’s theory of language and by Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis. In “Word, Sentence, Paragraph (Z. & N.),” he quotes a passage from Freud’s “Psychopathology of Everyday Life”: he mounts an enlarged photographic print on the wall and crosses it out with white neon tubes, which both obscure and illuminate the excerpt. Freud analyzes verbal slips in times of war; Kosuth, for his part, addresses himself to the individual elements of texts, toying with the production and obliteration of meaning.

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