Joseph Kosuth / The (Ethical) Space of Cabinets 7 & 8 / Say: I do not know. Voltaire Room Taylor Institution Oxford University. Two Oxford Reading Rooms
KOSUTH Joseph (Toledo 1945)
London, 1994, 20,9x9,5, paperback with papers of various weights and qualities, [108], artist’s book with cover and die-cut pages alternating with text pages printed on transparent opaque paper or entirely illustrated with black and white photographic images. The spaces and elements of the library were used by Kosuth for an installation which still remains in the same rooms. The reproduced texts are taken from eighteenth-century philosophical volumes conserved in the “Voltaire Room” of the Taylor Institution (Oxford University) and exhibited in the room or extemporaneous quotations and philosophical considerations by the artist. Overall circulation of 1000 copies. Copy in the special edition of 250 numbered copies (10 out of 250), signed by the artist.
KOSUTH Joseph (Toledo 1945)
London, 1994, 20,9x9,5, paperback with papers of various weights and qualities, [108], artist’s book with cover and die-cut pages alternating with text pages printed on transparent opaque paper or entirely illustrated with black and white photographic images. The spaces and elements of the library were used by Kosuth for an installation which still remains in the same rooms. The reproduced texts are taken from eighteenth-century philosophical volumes conserved in the “Voltaire Room” of the Taylor Institution (Oxford University) and exhibited in the room or extemporaneous quotations and philosophical considerations by the artist. Overall circulation of 1000 copies. Copy in the special edition of 250 numbered copies (10 out of 250), signed by the artist.
KOSUTH Joseph (Toledo 1945)
London, 1994, 20,9x9,5, paperback with papers of various weights and qualities, [108], artist’s book with cover and die-cut pages alternating with text pages printed on transparent opaque paper or entirely illustrated with black and white photographic images. The spaces and elements of the library were used by Kosuth for an installation which still remains in the same rooms. The reproduced texts are taken from eighteenth-century philosophical volumes conserved in the “Voltaire Room” of the Taylor Institution (Oxford University) and exhibited in the room or extemporaneous quotations and philosophical considerations by the artist. Overall circulation of 1000 copies. Copy in the special edition of 250 numbered copies (10 out of 250), signed by the artist.
