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In 1965 Kosuth moved to New York to attend the School of Visual Arts; he would later join the faculty. He soon abandoned painting and began making conceptual works, which were first shown in 1967 at the exhibition space he co-founded, known as the Museum of Normal Art. In 1969 Kosuth held his first solo exhibition at Leo Castelli Gallery, New York and in the same year became the American editor of the journal Art and Language.

From 1971-1972 he studied anthropology and philosophy at the New School for Social Research, New York. The philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, among others, influenced the development of his art from the late sixties to mid seventies. Kosuth's work has consistently explored the production and role of language and meaning within art. His nearly forty year inquiry into the relation of language to art has taken the form of installations, museum exhibitions, public commissions and publications throughout Europe, the Americas and Asia, including Documenta V, VI, VII and IX (1972, 1978, 1982, 1992) and the Biennale di Venezia in 1976, 1993 and 1999. Recently, he exhibited Il Linguaggio dell'Equilibrio / The Language of Equilibrium at the Monastic Headquarters of the Mekhitarian Order on the island of San Lazzaro degli Armeni, Venice. This was presented concurrently with the 2007 Biennale di Venezia.

Joseph Kosuth is one of the pioneers of Conceptual art and installation art, initiating language based works and appropriation strategies in the 1960s. His work has consistently explored the production and role of language and meaning within art.

Born: 1945, in Toledo, Ohio
School: the Toledo Museum School of Design from 1955 to 1962 ; studied privately under the Belgian painter Line Bloom Draper ; From 1963 to 1964, he was enrolled at the Cleveland Art Institute.

Marcel Duchamp is arguably the most famous conceptual artist. Born in France, moved to the USA and became an American citizen in 1955. Marcel Duchamp had a large influence on post war art including the Dada art movement and Surrealist art movement, which his name is normally associated with. Many of Marcel Duchamp's art works that were classified as Dadaist or Surrealist nowadays would be categorised as Conceptual art.

Marcel Duchamp's early works were very much influenced by the Post impressionist styles of Vincent Van Gough and Paul Cezanne. Duchamp’s style then progressed and developed into Fauvism and then Cubism.

Marcel Duchamp aligned himself with the Dada modern art movement where he created his most famous art works such as 'fountain' and his Bicycle wheel that was lost and never recovered.

Wool is best known for his paintings of large, black, stenciled letters on white canvases. Wool began to create word paintings in the late 1980s, reportedly after having seen graffiti on a brand new white truck. Using a system of alliteration, with the words often broken up by a grid system, or with the vowels removed (as in ‘TRBL’ or ‘DRNK’), Wool’s word paintings often demand reading aloud to make sense.

From the early 1990s through the present, the silkscreen has been a primary tool in Wool’s practice. In his abstract paintings Wool brings together figures and the disfigured, drawing and painting, spontaneous impulses and well thought-out ideas. He draws lines on the canvas with a spray gun and then, directly after, wipes them out again with a rag drenched in solvent to give a new picture in which clear lines have to stand their own against smeared surfaces.