THE PLAY OF THE UNMENTIONABLE: An Installation by Joseph Kosuth at the Brooklyn Museum. Signed and inscribed by Joseph Kosuth.

Kosuth, Joseph; David Freedberg; Brooklyn Museum

ISBN 10: 1565840046 ISBN 13: 9781565840041

Published by New Press, New York, NY, 1992

Language: English

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xvi, 148 pages of text. Hardcover binding in almost new condition. Unclipped dustjacket with minimal shelfwear, in almost new condition; protected in archival mylar. Signed and inscribed on the half-title page "To.Thanks for the conversation! [signed] Joseph Kosuth Chicago 20.VI.92." Numerous illustrations. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition. Size: Quarto (4to).

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THE PLAY OF THE UNMENTIONABLE: An Installation by Joseph Kosuth at the Brooklyn Museum. Signed and inscribed by Joseph Kosuth.

Publisher

New Press, New York, NY

Publication Date

1992

Language

English

ISBN 10

1565840046

ISBN 13

9781565840041

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First Edition.

Condition

Near fine condition

Dust Jacket Condition

Near fine condition (DJ)

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Signed by Author(s)

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At the height of the controversy over government funding for "obscene" works of art, internationally renowned conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth created "The Brooklyn Museum Collection: The Play of the Unmentionable," an exhibit about censorship. His installation, one of the best-attended, most widely reviewed of the year, juxtaposed works of art from throughout history that had been deemed politically, religiously, or sexually objectionable, with statements about the role of art in society by writers as diverse as Oscar Wilde, Adolf Hitler, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. This handsome book documents the exhibit with twenty-one pages of color and more than a hundred duotone photographs along with a major essay by art historian David Freedberg.

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Kosuth's installation and book give a historic context and an added vantage of hindsight to the ongoing national debate about arts and censorship. -- Columbus Dispatch

This book captures a great exhibition; it is new evidence of the museum's potential to act as a brilliant provocateur, an inciter of unthinkable thoughts, an essential constructor of mindful lives. -- Museum News

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