James Casebere

Empty Room

Maker

James Casebere (American, b. 1953)

Title

Empty Room

Year

1994

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Dimensions

121.9 x 152.4 cm (48 x 60 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed, titled, dated, and editioned in graphite, on verso.

Identification

State

AP

Edition

1 edition of 5

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Judy and Robert Mann

Object Number

2016.25

Type

Exhibition History

The Phantom of Liberty
Contemporary Works in the RISD Museum Collection
May 04, 2018 – Dec 30, 2018

Label copy

I was thinking a lot about the Enlightenment era and the way that different cultural institutions were created in the late 18th and early 19th century. One of the developments was the prison. I wanted to investigate innovations of the whole system. . . . I was trying to critically look at the whole process of incarceration as cultural-historical phenomena. -James Casebere

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Tombstone

James Casebere (American, b. 1953)
Empty Room, 1994
Cibachrome print
121.9 x 152.4 cm (48 x 60 inches)
Gift of Judy and Robert Mann 2016.25

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