English 88
Modern & Contemporary American Poetry
Al Filreis
University of Pennsylvania
Fall 2010
Tuesdays/Thursdays 1:30-3 PM
at the Kelly Writers House
Joseph Kosuth, No Number #6 (On Color, Blue)
(1991), neon tubing with argon gas and mercury. In the Chicago Museum of
Contemporary Art's permanent collection: "I am only describing
language, not
explaining anything." (neon on wall, circa 1997, displayed at the
Museum
of
Contemporary Art, Chicago; the original neon is blue)
A succint definition of Conceptual art, in "Inquiry into the
foundations of
the concept 'art', as it has come to mean," given by
Joseph Kosuth,
requires "a linguistic rather than plastic
context."