2/internal/media/dispatcher/75439/fullThe Play Of The Unsayable1989[Joseph Kosuth]Joseph KosuthSilkscreen on paperPrinthttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/58665/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/72476/fullWord, Sentence, Paragraph (Z.&N.) in German1986[Joseph Kosuth]Joseph KosuthWallpaper, neon tubes, cables, power transformersA 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.Conceptual arthttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/56263/rdf