id: 166818 accession number: 2009.1.bb share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2009.1.bb updated: 2023-03-22 03:04:31.394000 Photo chosen by Joseph Kosuth for inclusion of One and Three Photographs [Ety.] in the exhibition "Joseph Kosuth, A Labyrinth Into Which I Can Venture (A Play of Works by Guests and Foreigners)", Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, Sept. 19 - Oct. 28, 2006, 1965. Joseph Kosuth (American, 1945-). Vintage photograph, photograph of a photograph, photographic enlargement of dictionary definition of ‘photograph,’ original photo-certificate with original cut-out definition; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2009.1.bb © Joseph Kosuth / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York title: Photo chosen by Joseph Kosuth for inclusion of One and Three Photographs [Ety.] in the exhibition "Joseph Kosuth, A Labyrinth Into Which I Can Venture (A Play of Works by Guests and Foreigners)", Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, Sept. 19 - Oct. 28, 2006 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1965 creation date earliest: 1965 creation date latest: 1965 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: © Joseph Kosuth / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York --- culture: America, 20th century technique: vintage photograph, photograph of a photograph, photographic enlargement of dictionary definition of ‘photograph,’ original photo-certificate with original cut-out definition department: Contemporary Art collection: CONTEMP - Installation Media type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Joseph Kosuth (American, 1945-) - artist --- measurements: state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 229): Septepmber 11, 2009 - December 7, 2009. --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Kosuth is regarded as one of the most significant artists to champion conceptualism, which values the idea of an artwork over the physical object itself. In this work, Kosuth compares three different ways to present information, represented by an etymological dictionary definition of photograph, a photograph by Linda Butler of the nearby Peter B. Lewis building designed by Frank Gehry, and a life-size photograph of Butler’s photograph. Kosuth’s groundbreaking work presciently questions what it means for any image to be an “original” and whether this distinction influences a picture’s meaning. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES