{"title":"Joseph Kosuth","description":"\u003cp\u003eJoseph Kosuth (b. 1945) is one of the founding figures of conceptual art. His practice, established in the mid-1960s, proposed that art is fundamentally a matter of definition: what art is, what language does, and how meaning is produced through the act of presentation rather than through aesthetic form. His 1969 essay \u003cem\u003eArt After Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e remains a foundational text of the movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKosuth's work operates through tautology, substitution, and institutional critique. Neon signs, dictionary definitions, photographic enlargements of text, and site-specific installations have all served as vehicles for an inquiry that has remained consistent across six decades: the investigation of art's own conditions of possibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe publications gathered here document exhibitions, institutional surveys, and critical engagements with Kosuth's practice across its full span. Catalogues, artist books, and printed matter from museums and galleries in Europe and North America — objects that carry the argument of the work into another register.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal period items. Increasingly scarce in commercial circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"felix-gonzalez-torres-hirshhorn-museum-sculpture-garden-washington-dc-1994","title":"Félix González-Torres — Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., 1994","description":"\u003cp\u003eExhibition catalogue. Softcover with full-colour photographic wrappers. Published by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., 1994. 22 × 28 cm, 79 pages. Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers (DAP).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good vintage condition. Light surface wear, minor handling marks, and gentle edge softening. The marks remain part of the record: evidence of circulation, storage, handling, and transfer. A museum publication retained long enough to change status.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on the occasion of the 1994 exhibition devoted to Félix González-Torres, one of the defining figures of late twentieth-century conceptual practice. The catalogue gathers essays by Russell Ferguson, Charles Merewether, Joseph Kosuth, bell hooks, and others, positioning the artist's work within discussions of intimacy, public space, political visibility, loss, abstraction, and desire. The inclusion of bell hooks' text \u003cem\u003esubversive beauty: new modes of contestation\u003c\/em\u003e situates the publication within a broader cultural and theoretical discourse extending beyond contemporary art alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe publication functions simultaneously as exhibition document, theoretical reader, and historical record. Reproductions move between grids, photographs, light-based works, and installations, reflecting the unstable status of González-Torres's practice: objects that circulate, disappear, replenish themselves, and exist through repeated manifestation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn increasingly uncommon catalogue from a pivotal moment in the artist's career. More visible in institutional collections and academic references than in regular commercial circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal period item.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53621408137554,"sku":"GONZALEZ-TORRES-HIRSHHORN-CAT-1994","price":120.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Gonzalez-Torres_Felix._Hirshborne_Museum_and_Sculpture_museum_Washington_DC._1994_front.jpg?v=1780347716"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/joseph-kosuth.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}