Conceptual Art

Question 1

Answer 1

Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chairs, 1965

Conceptual Art: semiotic dilemma of meaning- semiotics is study of signs and meaning construction; signifier=sound or visual image; signified= mental concept or idea; all dependent upon shifting ground of language, words are abstractions, meaningless until assembled together

Post-Structuralist reading of language as systems of signs, all signs arbitrary, gain meaning in difference from other signs; codes work together to confer meaning

what is real chair? object, visual image, definition, idea? artfulness is in idea- challenges to consider how meaning constructed and communicated