Corpse and Mirror
Artist: Jasper Johns (American, born 1930)
Publisher: Universal Limited Art Editions
Date: 1976
Dimensions:
30 3/4 x 39 9/16 in. (78.1 x 101.5 cm)
Medium: Lithograph
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Frederick B. and Kate L. Shoemaker Fund
Object number: 1976.66
Label Text:Printed on black German etching paper, this print was produced in five shades of gray from 12 lithographic plates at Universal Limited Art Editions. Corpse and Mirror is the third print in a series that Jasper Johns made after a 1974 painting of the same name. The cross-hatching pattern, meant to be reminiscent of paving stones, is a recurring theme in Johns’ paintings and prints and is a provocative and enigmatic continuation of the artist’s exploration of the relationship between the idea of reality, illusion, and perceptual expectation.
This etching is extraordinary in its exploitation of the rich nuances possible in the lithographic process and in the probing reexamination of the artist's own aesthetic concerns.
This etching is extraordinary in its exploitation of the rich nuances possible in the lithographic process and in the probing reexamination of the artist's own aesthetic concerns.
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