M. Ampere

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M. Ampere

Artist Bruce Nauman (American, born 1941)

Date1973

Dimensions31 x 45 1/8 in. (76.5 x 112.5 cm)

MediumLithograph

ClassificationPrints

Credit LineWinthrop H. Perry Fund

Object number

1978.15

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Label TextThis word-image is one of a number of works involving word play created by Bruce Nauman during the 1970s. He compared making this lithograph to chiseling stone to create a shallow relief. Nauman has connected his “word-works”—which involve anagrams, palindromes, and mirror images—to his interest in the image reversal that took place when he removed the moulds from his early fiber glass sculptures. The frequently disturbing or ambiguous nature of the semi-concealed messages in the word-works is in contrast to the spare elegance of the images. Here the message discovered within the letters is the brutal phrase “Rape Me.”Exhibition HistoryTMA Recent Acquisitions, Prints, Photographs and Drawings : April 1979 Mar. - Apr.,1979 TMA Contempary Realistic Prints: Mar. 17, - June 3, 1984 Toledo Museum of Art, Werner Pfeiffer Selects, Feb. 13-May 10, 2015.