About this artwork
In this print, Marisol juxtaposed negative and positive space to create perceptual reversals that are especially poignant when one discovers that the shapes are the artist’s face and hands. In Marisol’s work throughout the 1960s and 1970s, hands and fingers recur as signifiers of autoerotic content.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Marisol
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Title
- The Kiss
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1965
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Medium
- Color lithograph from three stones on white wove paper
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Dimensions
- Image: 30.5 × 26 cm (12 1/16 × 10 1/4 in.); Sheet: 57 × 44 cm (22 1/2 × 17 3/8 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
- 1982.829
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Copyright
- © Estate of Marisol
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