Photograph
1986 (made)
Photograph by Wiener Andy, 'No. 7: Shortly After the Marriage' from the series A Rake's Progress, C-type print, 1986
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Brief description | Photograph by Wiener Andy, 'No. 7: Shortly After the Marriage' from the series A Rake's Progress, C-type print, 1986 |
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Gallery label | Making It Up: Photographic Fictions (2018)
These photographs refer to William Hogarth’s series of paintings about the downfall of an extravagant, womanizing ‘rake’. All the figures wear masks of the same face (the photographer’s own), suggesting the central character’s egotism. While Hogarth’s rake ends up in an insane asylum, Wiener’s descends into madness in front of a television, in a scene the artist says ‘corresponds to a modern Bedlam’.
Marta Weiss |
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Accession number | PH.348-1987 |
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Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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