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          Text-Context

          The two figures in this painting are Ellen Andree, a noted French Actress, and Marcellin Desboutin, an artist and noted bohemian personality, sitting at the Café de la Nouvelle-Athenes, in Paris, France. In front of the woman sits a glass of the greenish colored liquid, Absinthe. It was first exhibited in 1872, where it was criticized as ugly and disgusting, and a later exhibition in 1892 it was removed from the show. It was shown a year later inn England, where it sparked controversy. The woman in the painting was derided as a whore and the entire image was seen as a blow to morality and the degradation of society due to absinthe.

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          The X-Ray page of "Text-Context" by Joseph Kosuth is an interactive viewer that lets you slide through eleven optical layers of the artwork's image, including an X-ray style view.

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          The dominant hue of "Text-Context" by Joseph Kosuth is green to violet spectrum. The hue is the underlying tone of the palette.

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          Joseph Kosuth (1945 –)

          Joseph Kosuth (b. 1945) is a pioneering conceptual artist known for language-based art, installation & exploring meaning in art. Key figure of post-modernism, influenced by Duchamp & Wittgenstein.

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