Image

Masami Teraoka

Condom Pillow Book, 1987

Description

Maker

Brian Shure, b. 1952, American, printer, (RISD Faculty, Printmaking)
Masami Teraoka, b. 1936, American (b. Japan)
Evelyn Lincoln, printer
Smalltree Press, American, publisher

Title

Condom Pillow Book

Year

1987

Medium

Lift-ground etching, aquatint, and soft-ground counterproof chine collé on kitakata paper

Dimensions

Image: 17.6 x 11.3 cm (6 15/16 x 4 7/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Artist signature on verso: Masami Teraoka

Identification

Edition

7/52

Type

Credit

Gift of Evelyn Lincoln

Object Number

2021.18.2.2

Exhibition History

Variance

February 1 - October 9, 2022

These prints reference 19th-century Japanese ukiyo-e (floating world) woodblock prints, from the calligraphy within them to the fan-shaped design that unites them. These works, however, are from artist Masami Teraoka’s mid-1980s AIDS Series. References to that ongoing pandemic include condom wrappers and the man with the wasted physique. Comprising small-scale prints and large-scale paintings, the series began after Teraoka encountered a woman whose child was born with HIV. Rather than depicting the pandemic in the world around him, he transposed it onto an aesthetic tradition that existed prior to HIV/AIDS.

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