Sheet & Image Size 41,5x63cm

Born in Toledo, Ohio 1945.

Art "lives" through influencing other art, not by existing as the physical residue of an artist's ideas. The reason that different artists from the past are "brought alive" again is because some aspect of their work becomes "usable" by living artists. 'Joseph Kosuth' Art after Philosophy, I & II, Studio International 1969.

The most succint definition of Conceptual art, "inquiry into the foundations of the concept "art", as it has come to mean", given by Joseph Kosuth, requires a linguistic rather than plastic context "Riva Castleman 'Prints of the 20th Century', Thames & Hudson 1976 and 1978.