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The River, 1989
| Content Provider | Art Institute of Chicago |
|---|---|
| Artist | Kay Rosen |
| Spatial Coverage | United States |
| Temporal Coverage | 1989 |
| Description | Kay Rosen uses words and letters as a means of examining the ways in which language structures knowledge— particularly in terms of awareness of self and place. Generally concerned with formal configurations of words and letters and with the gamesmanship involved in the deconstruction and reconstruction of language, her exceedingly clever, diagrammatic works consist of common phrases, poetic verse, and word plays based on synonyms and homonyms. These black-and-white paintings form a cornerstone of Rosen's work from the late 1980s onward, reflecting an early and ongoing interest in themes such as systems and symmetry, the structure of individual letterforms, comparative structures of words, and humor. [A work made of enamel sign paint on canvas.] |
| File Format | JPG / JPEG |
| Access Restriction | Open |
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| Use Rights URL | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
| Subject Keyword | Painting Artworks Contemporary Art |
| Content Type | Image |
| Resource Type | Painting |
| Object Type | Painting |
