Word: kosuth
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Dates: during 1968-1968
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...Currently on display at Manhattan's Dwan Gallery are 41 works consisting mostly of words or scale drawings. Among them is one work titled Art as Idea as Idea, which is simply a photographic blowup of the dictionary definition of real. It is the end product of Joseph Kosuth's struggle with the artistic problem of defining what "the real thing is." Says Kosuth gravely: "I think the importance of all art is its ideas." Japanese-born Shusaku Arakawa shows a canvas on which is handwritten a recipe for banana cake. Who, after all, could show...
Conceptual art has become a favorite with avant-garde collectors. Kosuth's photographic version of real has already been bought by Businessman-Collector John Powers. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week put on view ten scale models, sketches and photomontages by the Bulgarian-born artist Christo, who set out to show what the museum would look like if its building were wrapped in canvas and tied up with rope. Museum Curator William S. Rubin found Christo's ideas, with or without the rope to hang them by, a "poetic" comment on packaging, which has "become...