About this artwork
This complex print is filled with art historical references, a working mode that continues to inform Johns’s art.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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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Jasper Johns
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Title
- Corpse and Mirror
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1976
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Medium
- Lithograph on black wove paper
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Dimensions
- Image: 70 × 93 cm (27 9/16 × 36 5/8 in.); Sheet: 78 × 100.5 cm (30 3/4 × 39 5/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- 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
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Reference Number
- 1983.565
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Copyright
- Art © Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
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