Describe the role of text and words in Conceptual art. What ideas result from the use of words that cannot be achieved without text?
What will be an ideal response?
Many Conceptual artists worked with language, for words, when written, take on a double life as image and idea. For example, Joseph Kosuth made a work called One and Three Chairs by juxtaposing three elements: a chair, a black-and-white photograph of the same chair enlarged to life-size, and a photographic enlargement of a dictionary definition of the word chair. In true Conceptual fashion, the form is secondary, for the style of chair doesn't matter, any dictionary definition will do, and the three elements can be arranged in many ways. Conceptual art often plays with the idea of "truth" and uses language to challenge our notions of what that may be.
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