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| Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chairs (1965) |
A seminal essay proposing that art is a form of – or, rather, replaces the function of – philosophy is Joseph Kosuth's "Art after Philosophy". It is very much recommended reading. For Kosuth, the primary question of art is what art is, which is pursued "through artistic means".
The essay is available via UBUWeb here.
His classic work One and Three Chairs (1965, pictured above) plays wittily on Plato's discussions of art in the Republic, to question the nature of representation, and to probe Plato's suggestion that it is only philosophy (and the word), rather than art (and the image), that offers us "truth" or conceptual knowledge.
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