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Dotty Attie

After Magritte, 1998

Description

Maker

  • Brian Shure, b. 1952, American, printer, (RISD Faculty, Printmaking)
  • Andrew Raftery, b.1962, American, (RISD Faculty 1991-, Printmaking)
  • Dotty Attie, b. 1938, American
  • RISD Editions, publisher

Title

After Magritte

Year

1998

Medium

Photolithograph on paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • photolithograph

Supports

  • two attached sheets of Rives Heavyweight

Dimensions

Sheet: 22.5 x 22.5 cm (8 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

On verso, in pencil: "PIP AFTER MAGRITTE 1998 DoTTY ATTIE" Recto in the margin, photolithograph typed faced: "AFTER MAGRITTE"

Identification

State

Printers Proof/

Edition

ed. of 30

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Gift of the Printmaking Department, Rhode Island School of Design

Object Number

2000.56

About

In this print, we see two figures whose kiss is disrupted by the medical masks they are wearing. Dotty Attie was responding to the Surrealist artist René Magritte’s ambiguous painting The Lovers (1928), in which two seemingly kissing figures are depicted with their heads wrapped in white cloth. In Attie’s 1998 work, the 1950s clothing and hairstyles of the “lovers” recall an era of misogynistic gender norms. Their medical masks may invoke protection from the power dynamics at play in heterosexual romantic intimacy.

In the new context of COVID-19 and social distancing, this work now underscores the radical rupture in interpersonal relations experienced around the globe.

ed. of 30

On verso, in pencil: "PIP AFTER MAGRITTE 1998 DoTTY ATTIE" Recto in the margin, photolithograph typed faced: "AFTER MAGRITTE"

Printers Proof/
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Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is After Magritte with the accession number of 2000.56. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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