Word as Image: 20th Century International Prints and Illustrated Books
Dates:
11 July – 18 August 1990
Artists:
Guillaume Apollinaire, Shusaku Arakawa, Johannes Baader, Marcel Broodthaers, Chris Burden, Francesco Canguillo, Carlo Carrà, Blaise Cendrars, Dada Publications, Sonia Delaunay, Oyvind Fahlström, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Hans Haacke, Richard Hamilton, Raoul Hausmann, Jenny Holzer, Iliazd, Jasper Johns, Vasilii Kamenskii, Edward Kienholz, R.B. Kitaj, Ji í Kolá , Aleksei Kruchenykh, Mikhail Larionov, Fernard Léger, Wyndham Lewis, El Lissitzky, Louis Marcoussis, F.T. Marinetti, Maurizio Nannucci, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Tom Phillips, Pablo Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Richardson, Ed Ruscha, Joe Tilson, Ben Vautier, Lawrence Weiner, Emmett Williams
Curator:
Stephen Coppel
Location:
Monash University Gallery
Monash University, Clayton Campus
Touring:
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
10 March – 4 June 1989
About the exhibition
As artists moved away from representing the external world, words and letters became appropriate subjects for art and contributed to the emergence of a distinctively twentieth-century iconography. Drawn from the international art collection of the National Gallery of Australia (formerly the Australian National Gallery) in Canberra, Word as Image traced this development as it was expressed in the medium of printmaking through inclusion of slogans, letters, puns, literary allusions and concrete poems. The exhibition featured over sixty works by major artists from across Europe and America, with key movements such as Cubism, Futurism, the Russian avant-garde, Dadaism and Pop art represented in depth.
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Image: Bruce Nauman, Ah Ha 1975, screenprint, 74 x 104.4 cm, artist’s proof vi/xi, edition of 44. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Purchased 1976