Joseph Kosuth is an American conceptual artist born in 1945 Toledo, Ohio. His art piece named 'One and Three Chairs' was first made in 1965 and since then he has done various variations on it. The original piece is of a wooden folding chair, a mounted life size photograph of said chair, and a photograph enlargement of the dictionary definition of "chair". All three are chairs or codes for one: a visual code, a verbal code, and a code in the language of objects.
What Kosuth wants us to do with this art piece is to make us reconsider our use of chairs. He is trying to provoke into thought of everyday appliances we use and never before think of their use, here he has us use our mind and think about what really a chair is. Kosuth wants us to think about what art is and not just look at the beauty of it but really question why it is art and it subliminal message. 'For Kosuth, modern art is essentially self-reflective; its intention is to interrogate what art is, to define the concept of art. It is no longer a question of producing beautiful objects, but of producing questionable or problematic ones.'
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