Jasper Johns (American, born 1930)
printed by Bill Goldston and James V. Smith
published by Universal Limited Art Editions (American, founded 1955)
Corpse and Mirror
INV-1005
Jasper Johns (American, born 1930)
printed by Bill Goldston and James V. Smith
published by Universal Limited Art Editions (American, founded 1955)1976
Corpse and Mirror
Jasper Johns (American, born 1930) printed by Bill Goldston and James V. Smith published by Universal Limited Art Editions (American, founded 1955) →lithographprint
Date
1976
Medium
Lithograph on black wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 70 × 93 cm (27 9/16 × 36 5/8 in.); Sheet: 78 × 100.5 cm (30 3/4 × 39 5/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
U.L.A.E. Collection acquired through a challenge grant of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dittmer; purchased with funds provided by supporters of the Department of Prints and Drawings; Centennial Endowment; Margaret Fisher Endowment Fund
This complex print is filled with art historical references, a working mode that continues to inform Johns’s art.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.
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