Splitting of Meaning
Shusaku Arakawa, Japanese, 1936 - 2010
1970-1971
Screenprint on paper
Edition 8/100
Overall: 44 × 34 in. (111.7 × 86.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Adelbert Ames Fine Arts Awards Fund
© Shusaku Arakawa
PR.977.7
Geography
Place Made: Japan, East Asia, Asia
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Text, upper center: 7 SPLITTING OF MEANING / EXERCISES TO DEMONSTRATE THE DISJUNCTION, / DISASSOCIATION, ABSTRACTION, BRANDING AND RAMIFICATIONS / PERTAINTING TO SIGNIFICATION. ADDITIONAL EXERCISES MAY / ATTEMPT TO INDUCE FURTHER "UNNATURAL" SPLITTING.; lower center: PORTRAIT OF MONA LISA (SEE ABOVE) / BY La Ginconda (in script)
Course History
Studio Art 27.01, Printmaking I, Abra Ancliffe, Spring 2024
Exhibition History
Contemporary American Graphics, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 3-September 5, 1977.
Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, March 28-May 7, 1979.
Recent American Graphics, Art 53, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 18-May 25, 1980.
Second Stage of Modernism: Art from 1945 to the Present, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall, Churchill P. Lathrop, Friends, and Owen Robertson Cheatam Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 6-August 16, 1987.
Publication History
Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009 p.178, no.168.
Provenance
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York; sold to present collection, 1977.
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