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      Joseph Kosuth

      Two Oxford Reading Rooms (Special Edition)

      112 pages with silver-gilt edges | Two colour | 210 x 98 mm, Hard cover with slipcase | 1994 | Edition of 250 signed and numbered copies
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Joseph Kosuth made two installations in Oxford as part of The Reading Room Project, for the particular contexts of the Taylor Institution and of the Divinity School of the Bodleian Library. This book configures these works back to back: The (Ethical) Space of Cabinets 7 & 8 is printed vertically while Say: I Do Not Know is printed horizontally. Both works put in apposition texts by Voltaire and John Locke. The ideas explored in the original installations are expounded in the book through the manipulation of the book format, utilising die-cut windows, tracing paper pages and two-colour printing.


コンセプチュアルアーティスト・Joseph Kosuthは、アートプロジェクト[The Reading Room Project]の一環として2つのインスタレーションを行った。本書では、[The (Ethical) Space of Cabinets 7 & 8]は垂直に、[while Say: I Do Not Know]は並行に印刷され、その2つの作品が連続的に収められている。用いられているテキストはヴォルテールとジョン・ロックによるもの。インスタレーションで用いられたアイデアは、マドの開いたページやトレーシングペーパー、2色刷の印刷などで本の体裁をとっても精巧に表現されている。
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