Joseph Kosuth – L'Essence de la rhétorique... sigmar polke weaves across the image in

weaves across the image in rhythmic

and visual exactitude

Dimensions: 69 x 82 cm

combining surreal imagery with political and philosophical undertones and translating his narrative-driven drawing practice into a carefully produced edition

foregrounding repetition

Joseph Kosuth – L'Essence de la rhétorique... sigmar polke weaves across the image inIn Joseph Kosuth's L'Essence de la rhtorique est dans l'allgorie IV (1998), the artist presents three decisive quotations from Michel Foucault's essay Ceci n'est pas une pipe, isolating the paired terms imiter et signifier, montrer et nommer, and regarder et lire. These phrases articulate Foucault's distinction between rhetoric and the calligram, a distinction that is central to both Ren Magritte's Surrealist practice and Kosuth's own conceptual