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The Fallen Easel

Print
1988 (made)
Artist/Maker
Cirrus Editions (publisher)
John Baldessari (maker)
Place of origin
USA (made)

A strip of aluminium printed with a black and white film still.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Photographs
Object type
Print
TitleThe Fallen Easel (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Half-tone positive printed on aluminium
Aluminium
Printing
Brief description
Print by John Baldessari, part of a work entitled 'The Fallen Easel', half-tone positive printed on aluminium, USA, 1988
Physical description
A strip of aluminium printed with a black and white film still.
Dimensions
  • Irregular height: 188cm (Note: whole object)
  • Irregular width: 241.3cm (Note: whole object)
  • Framed height: 170.4cm
  • Framed length: 36cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1990
Style
Conceptual Art
Copy number
7/35
Marks and inscriptions
(Inscribed on a label on the back with name of artist, title and publisher and numbered 7/35)
Production
Baldesarri’s work ‘The Fallen Easel’ consists of nine prints appropriated from cinema footage; five half-toned positive printed on aluminium, three parts printed on Arches 88 paper and one part printed in Ragcote. Printing of the work was carried out by Robert Dansbury, Richard Hammond, and Francisco Siqueiros at Cirrus Editions in Los Angeles.

When assembled as a whole the configuration of the work is as follows: The central panel shows a hand held gun which points towards a picture at the right depicting three men, each of their faces obscured by a screen-printed circle of primary colour. Below them is a print of a leaping fish. At the left is a tilted photograph of an easel on the ground. Above these are five aluminium strips of film clips showing glances between several characters.
Subject depicted
Appropriation
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1990
  • Haworth-Booth, Mark. Photography Now. London: Dirk Nishen, in association with the Victoria & Albert Museum, 1989. ISBN: 185378012X. pp. 21-23
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.2761:5-1990

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Record createdFebruary 25, 2009
Record URL
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