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Joseph Kosuth, born 1945 in Toledo, Ohio, lives and works in Rome and New York. Kosuth - one of the pioneers of conceptual art - has, since the 60s, consistently explored the production and role of meaning within art using appropriation strategies and language-based works. His inquiry into the relation of language to art has utilized texts from a diverse variety of sources including dictionary definitions, the Rosetta Stone, the writings of Freud and Wittgenstein, the cartoon Calvin & Hobbes, and in his recent projects, literary sources by Thomas Mann, Italo Svevo, and Franz Kafka.