Front and Back View No. 1
Drawing
2005 (made)
2005 (made)
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Sculptor Juliet Haysom is interested in 'doubleness'. She says, 'I noticed that a silhouette of a figure ... could be read as either a front or back view. However, like Wittgenstein's rabbit/duck figure it could not be seen as both simultaneously.... In this series I drew onto photocopies of postcards showing women in landscape to push them into this ambiguous position.'
Object details
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| Title | Front and Back View No. 1 (assigned by artist) |
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| Brief description | Drawing, Front and Back View No. 1 by Juliet Haysom, pencil, 2005 |
| Physical description | Photocopy of postcard in shades of grey showing a female figure standing on a grassy slope holding a tennis racket and ball. Heavy pencil shading over the area of the figure (excluding hair and lower legs) makes it into a silhouette, and therefore impossible to tell whether it is a front or a back view. |
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| Object history | This drawing is part of the '40 Artists - 40 Drawings' series acquired as a group in 2007. |
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| Summary | Sculptor Juliet Haysom is interested in 'doubleness'. She says, 'I noticed that a silhouette of a figure ... could be read as either a front or back view. However, like Wittgenstein's rabbit/duck figure it could not be seen as both simultaneously.... In this series I drew onto photocopies of postcards showing women in landscape to push them into this ambiguous position.' |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.2581-2007 |
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| Record created | July 12, 2007 |
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