Joseph Kosuth, 1965. Blue neon tubing, 120 1/2 inches (306.1 cm) long. Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery; The Panza Collection and George B. and Jenny R. Mathews Fund, by exchange, George B. and Jenny R. Mathews Fund and Charles Clifton Fund, by exchange, 2008. © Joseph Kosuth / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photograph by Alessandro Zambianchi – Simply. it, Milano.
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