Readings from Joseph Kosuth's One and Three chairs

1. There are 5 chairs in Kosuth's artwork. The physical chair, made by the maker is the first chair that is counted because its a tangible thing. The second chair is the chair we can touch and sit in, making it an actual thing. The third chair is the chair the maker was thinking about while making it, having it be the image of the chair in our heads. It is the chair we picture, which brings me to the fourth chair- the image of the chair that we imagine that is a chair. And the fifth chair is the chair the maker wants us to believe is the appearance of the chair.

2. I believe Plato wouldn't believe any of the chairs were the real chair. The wooden chair is tangible, but that doesn't make it any more real that something you imagine, being the photograph or the definition. What is real anyway?