About this artwork
Characterized as an author, painter, poet, philosopher, gamesman, scientist, inventor, and teacher, Edwin Schlossberg saw his life’s work as getting people to think for themselves. In Wordswordswords, he deliberately ignored some of the basic rules of printing in order to make reading a physical act. Wordswordswords is a virtual “what not to do” in printmaking: misalignment, misspelling, reversals, accidental masking, creased paper, blind embossing, and fragmented letters. Of this piece Schlossberg said, “I hope they see the words, and then I hope they see themselves.”
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Edwin Schlossberg
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Title
- The Alphabet We Know, from Wordswordswords
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1967–1968
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Medium
- Letterpress in black on gray wove paper
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Dimensions
- Image: 23 × 19.5 cm (9 1/16 × 7 11/16 in.); Sheet: 28 × 21.7 cm (11 1/16 × 8 9/16 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
- 1982.558p
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