Corpse and Mirror
<p>This complex print is filled with art historical references, a working mode that continues to inform Johns’s art. The folded composition (six panels, each of which is book-matched to its neighbor), refers to the Surrealist parlor game Exquisite Corpse, in which each player draws part of a figure on a piece of paper folded to mask the other players’ drawings.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1976
- Dimensions
- Image: 70 × 93 cm (27 9/16 × 36 5/8 in.); Sheet: 78 × 100.5 cm (30 3/4 × 39 5/8 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Jasper Johns
Artist
Painting
Jasper Johns is an American painter, sculptor, draftsman, and printmaker. Considered a central figure in the development of American postwar art, he has been variously associated with abstract expressionism, Neo-Dada, and pop art movements.
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Record
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- Jasper Johns
- Year
- 1976
- Dimensions
- Image: 70 × 93 cm (27 9/16 × 36 5/8 in.); Sheet: 78 × 100.5 cm (30 3/4 × 39 5/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1976-126094
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
- verified