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Two large glass panels with reversed handwritten documents lean against a wall beside stacked metal boxes.

Sculpture

The Square Root of Minus One

Joseph Kosuth

1988

Medium
Screenprint on glass and neon
Dimensions
Overall: 88 × 164 × 15 in. (223.5 × 416.6 × 38.1 cm)
Accession number
2017.226
Acquired
2017
Credit line
Gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection
Reproduction credit
© Joseph Kosuth/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York
Department
collection

About this work

Joseph Kosuth, The Square Root of Minus One, 1988. Screenprint on glass and neon, overall: 88 × 164 × 15 in. (223.5 × 416.6 × 38.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection 2017.226. © Joseph Kosuth/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York

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