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...quotations address the post-modern "atrophy of experience," a symptom of the "information age," but the poor quality of the projections dilutes the visual impact of Kosuth's Primary cintext for his text, defying his emphasis on context and art being incorporated into the "real world...
...photographs from Kosuth's more recent work explore the overwhelming theme of text/context most lucidly and beautifully. Kosuth's work defies its medium, as it acquires another level of selfinvestigation with each new form of presentation...
...Kosuth demonstrates a most literal attention to self-consciousness and selfinvestigation in his pieces from the 1970s. A series of four photographs from 1975 shows questionnaires that Kosuth demanded that his viewers complete before leaving the gallery. The questionnaire asks the viewer to respond not only to the work, which is not shown in the MIT exhibit, but also to contemporary politics, such that one questionnaire mentions U.S. foreign policy with Cuba...
...exhibiting photographs of these questionnaires, Kosuth tests the boundaries of authorship as he blurs the line between documentation and representation. But as fascinating as the concepts may be, these photographs are aesthetically rather bland...
...from bland, Kosuth's most recent work consists largely of a dozen photographs of his billboards in major cities throughtout Europe and the U.S. These photos, by far the most visually compelling and intellectually intriguing pieces in the exhibit, show paragraphs of original prose, printed on billboards that blend into the cityscape, even capturing people's candid reactions to the esoteric signs. A knowledge of German, French or other European languages would help the viewer because no translations accompany these photographs. But there are enough photos of billboards in New York and California that the English-speaking viewer can gather...