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Liliana Porter, printmaker

For You, 2001

Description

Maker

  • Liliana Porter, b. 1941, Argentine, printmaker

Title

For You

Year

2001

Medium

Lithograph and drypoint

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • lithograph,
  • drypoint

Supports

  • somerset radient white paper

Dimensions

37.7 x 28 cm (14 13/16 x 11 inches)

Identification

Edition

9/25

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Modern Latin American Art

Object Number

2002.52.1

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Raid the Icebox Now with Pablo Helguera

February 7, 2020 - August 21, 2021

Historias

August 9, 2013 - January 5, 2014

In making these prints, Liliana Porter visited flea markets to find vintage toys and mass-produced knick-knacks, in particular those dating to the 1950s, the period of her youth. Isolated by a vast white background, the objects are stripped of their temporal contexts and everyday associations and placed in unusual juxtapositions, resulting in disorienting and absurd vignettes. Such is the case in The Offering, in which a toy penguin presents a tiny strip of red rice paper to the geisha printed on porcelain plate.

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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 For You with the accession number of 2002.52.1. 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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