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Joseph Kosuth Pricelist 1993-94 Faux Conceptual Art

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This work is a giant Xerox of the price list for Joseph Kosuth’s show at Leo Castelli Gallery in 1993. It’s a bit of an anthropological artifact. Leo Castelli is dead and the gallery is no longer open.

The work functions as a perfect market indicator. It strips the art down to it’s most basic which is a brand name (Joseph Kosuth) the description of the work, and its' price. Kosuth himself titled the series, the Thing-in-itself is found in its Truth through the loss of its immediacy I, II, III, IV, etc…


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Making it

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Actually it makes a lot of sense to create an exhibition that is about making objects. In the art world the object is central player. Think about this. The trend in the US has been away from making things; It's to ship manufacturing to cheap labor markets. Pretty soon there won't be anything made in the USA. Will people forget how to make things? Many postmodernist have other people manufacture their work.


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