Language III — Lawrence Weiner

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Artist: Lawrence Weiner
Date: 1969

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THE ARTIST

Lawrence Weiner

1942–2021 · United States

He turned language itself into sculpture, declaring that art could exist as words on a wall, in a book, or just in memory.

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