Guarded Conditions.
Title
Guarded Conditions .
Creator
Simpson, Lorna (American photographer and installation artist, born 1960)
Date
1989
Cultural Context
American North American African-American
Style/Period
Conceptual Contemporary Postmodern
Subject
Plaques Mixed media Social aspects Social values Ethnic stereotypes Stereotyping Discrimination Women Backs (Anatomy) Dresses Hairstyles Inscriptions Lettering (Layout features)
Description
"The viewer of Lorna Simpson's works is compelled to shuttle between texts and images in order to construct meanings . The use of text-image conjunctions was a major component of 1980s photographic process . In Britain Victor Burgin's teaching at the Polytechnic of Central London was particularly influential for a number of Simpson's contemporaries . These included Mitra Tabrizian , Karen Knorr , and Olivier Richon. " (Caption , p.222) ; "[…] Lorna Simpson , an African-American artist who employed text-image juxtapositions in a Conceptualist idiom , produced a haunting series of back views of a generic black female in a shift , her identity occluded . Clearly social invisibility was being figured here, whilst Simpson's textual captions produced ambiguous supplementary meanings. " (Excerpt , p.223)
Material
Eighteen Polaroid color prints with 21 plastic plaques, plastic letters Plastic (organic material) Photographs Instant camera photographs Mixed media
Measurements
231.1 x 332.7 cm
Technique
Photography Photographic processes Photographic techniques Diffusion transfer process Dye diffusion transfer process
Inscription
At the top, the text reads: GUARDED CONDITIONS; At the bottom beneath the images, the phrases SEX ATTACKS and SKIN ATTACKS repeatedly alternate on 3 rows.
Work Type
Photographs Instant camera photographs Dye diffusion transfer prints Mixed media
Repository
Museum of Contemporary Art (San Diego, California)
Source
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.222, fig.116)
Rights
Photograph reproduced in Hopkins courtesy: Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Museum purchase. Contemporary Collectors Fund, 1990. (12.1-28)
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format
image/jpeg
Digital File Name
VRC 827-45.jpg
Rating
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