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Front and Back View No. 1

Drawing
2005 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

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

Category
Object type
TitleFront and Back View No. 1 (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
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.
Dimensions
  • Height: 21.1cm
  • Width: 14.9cm
Style
Object history
This drawing is part of the '40 Artists - 40 Drawings' series acquired as a group in 2007.
Subjects depicted
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 createdJuly 12, 2007
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