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Friedrich St.Florian

Imaginary Architecture Over the Arizona Desert (Photomontage, Penn Station as a Hologram)

Maker

Friedrich St.Florian (American, 1932-2024, (RISD Faculty 1963-2005, Professor of Architecture)

Title

Imaginary Architecture Over the Arizona Desert (Photomontage, Penn Station as a Hologram)

Year

1970

Medium

  • Montage with transparency overlaid on commercially printed image

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Montage with transparency overlaid on commercially printed image

Dimensions

Mat Window Opening: 29.5 x 20 cm (11 5/8 x 7 7/8 inches); Image affixed to mount: 77.2 x 53.6 cm (30 3/8 x 21 1/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Recto of window mat: LL beneath opening: stamped in black ink: "FStF [circled]"; Verso of mat: UL: inscribed in black ink: " ' PROPOSAL FOR AN IMAGINARY MUSEUM OF ARCHITECTURE OVER THE DESERT OF ARIZONA ' / PROJECTION HOLOGRAM / 1970, MONTAGE / (TO BE SHOWN BEHIND GLASS"; CR: inscribed in graphite: "333-4H"

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of the artist

Object Number

2023.101.16

Type

  • Collage

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Friedrich St.Florian (American, 1932-2024
b. in Graz, Austria)
Imaginary Architecture Over the Arizona Desert (Photomontage, Penn Station as a Hologram), 1970
Montage with transparency overlaid on commercially printed image
Mat Window Opening: 29.5 x 20 cm (11 5/8 x 7 7/8 inches)<br>Image affixed to mount: 77.2 x 53.6 cm (30 3/8 x 21 1/8 inches)
Gift of the artist 2023.101.16

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