The Oculist Witnesses
Poster
1972 (printed and published)
1972 (printed and published)
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Colour screen print on paper, with dye-stamping and silver foil and acetate lamination.
Object details
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| Title | The Oculist Witnesses (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | printer's ink, silver foil, acetate, screen print, dye-stamping, lamination |
| Brief description | After Richard Hamilton: poster celebrating the production and publication of Marcel Duchamp's large Glass, 'The Oculist Witnesses', printed and published by Petersburg Press, 1972 |
| Physical description | Colour screen print on paper, with dye-stamping and silver foil and acetate lamination. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Marcel Duchamp. The 'oculist witnesses' a detail from the reconstruction by Richard Hamilton of the large glass. 'The bride stripped bare by her batchelors even'. Copyright Petersburg Press, 1968. (Lettered on the back.) |
| Credit line | Gift from The Petersburg Press Ltd. |
| Production | Richard Hamilton says the poster was made from a photograph he made while Duchamp was signing glass for the multiple. He signed blank glasses so that the signature would not be reversed when the glasses were laminated with the image. Image and signature were sealed inside the lamination. The image on the multiple was made from a photograph transferred to silk screen. It was therefore possible to take a positive of the photograph, make a dye-stamp from it, and super-impose it on the poster image. |
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| Accession number | CIRC.588-1976 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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