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Untitled

Print
1989 (printed and published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This print comes from a suite entitled ‘Undoings’, referring to Oulton’s concern with analysing or exploring an image by taking it apart, figuratively at least. Her intent is to enable a reassessment of traditional ways of seeing within the canons of Western art. In this image a neck-ruff taken from 17th-century Dutch genre painting has been isolated. It is reconceived as an image that is undefined yet evocative of landscape or a fragment of a magnified view. Conventional vision is, by her reworking, ‘undone’ or transfigured.

Object details

Category
Object type
Titles
  • Untitled (assigned by artist)
  • Undoings (series title)
Materials and techniques
Lithograph from stone on paper
Brief description
Print by Therese Oulton, 'Untitled', plate from a set of six entitled 'Undoings', printed by Jane Anderson and published by The Paragon Press, lithograph from stone, London, 1989
Physical description
A lithograph printed in black ink on white paper depicting an abstract image.
Dimensions
  • Sheet height: 75.3cm
  • Sheet width: 56.4cm
  • Image height: 30.8cm
  • Image width: 29cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1990
Copy number
32/40
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Therese Oulton '89' (Signed and dated in pencil)
  • '32/40' (Numbered)
Summary
This print comes from a suite entitled ‘Undoings’, referring to Oulton’s concern with analysing or exploring an image by taking it apart, figuratively at least. Her intent is to enable a reassessment of traditional ways of seeing within the canons of Western art. In this image a neck-ruff taken from 17th-century Dutch genre painting has been isolated. It is reconceived as an image that is undefined yet evocative of landscape or a fragment of a magnified view. Conventional vision is, by her reworking, ‘undone’ or transfigured.
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1990
Collection
Accession number
E.2706-1990

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Record createdApril 25, 2006
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