THE NATURE OF ART IN JOSEPH KOSSUTH'S INSTALLATION «ONE AND THREE CHAIRS» (USING THE EXAMPLE OF AN INSTALLATION FROM THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART IN NEW YORK)

Anastasiya Zhigaeva

doi:10.31804/2782-4926-2024-20-33

UDC 7.013 UDC 7.038.55

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THE NATURE OF ART IN JOSEPH KOSSUTH'S INSTALLATION «ONE AND THREE CHAIRS» (USING THE EXAMPLE OF AN INSTALLATION FROM THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART IN NEW YORK)

Published in Siberian Art History Journal · Volume 3, Issue 2 · Pages 20–33 · Rubric: Foreign art history

DOI: https://doi.org/10.31804/2782-4926-2024-20-33

Received: 28.06.2024 Accepted: 29.06.2024 Published: 29.06.2024

Authors

Anastasiya Zhigaeva

Siberian Federal University Krasnoyarsk

ABSTRACT

The article analyzes Joseph Kosuth's installation «One and Three Chairs» from 1965 (using the example of a variant from the Museum of Modern Art in New York). The concept of «visual» was chosen as the category in relation to which each of the three elements of the installation was analyzed. As a result of the analysis of the chair as a piece of furniture, visuality was presented as a physical opportunity to see, and the chair itself as a physical object. The analysis of the dictionary entry revealed the difference between virtuality as the ability to read and visuality as the ability to see a white page filled with black forms and white counterforms, which constitute an organized black-and-white unity, and the article itself as a text and as an organized image. The analysis of the chair photograph revealed visuality as the experience of seeing in a planar image of real three-dimensional objects and visuality organized by a planar black-and-white image representing the vision of dark and light spots - a dark spot is formalized as a chair and its shadow, from which we conclude that a light spot is formalized not as a white wall, but as light. And the photo of the chair is presented as an identifier of the physical and non-physical space. From which we conclude that visuality is not only a vision of the visible, but also a vision of the invisible, which is conceptualized into the following idea about the nature of art: a work of art shows the metaphysical through its physical.

KEYWORDS

visuality, Joseph Kosuth, visual art, metaphysics of art

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Doctor of Cultural Studies, Docent

Julia Zamaraeva

rybka08@bk.ru

Candidate of Philosophical Sciences

Anastasia Kistova

Candidate of Cultural Studies, Docent

Maria Kolesnik

masha_kolesnik@mail.ru

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor

Natal'ya P. Kopceva