COLLECTION NAME:
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0004163
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Work Title (display):
Fall '91
Image Title:
installation view
Work Dates (display):
1992
Work Dates type:
creation
Image Date (display):
2009-03-30
Work Creator (display):
Charles Ray (American, born 1953)
Work Creator gender:
male
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male
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Work Creator notes (display):
American sculptor. He studied for his BFA at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, graduating in 1975, then for his MFA at the Mason Gross School of Art, Rutgers University, NJ, graduating in 1979. Initially influenced by sculptors such as Anthony Caro, by including his own body in his works he made them more like documented performances. In Plank Piece III (1973; see 1994 exh. cat., p. 30), for example, he pinned his body to the wall with a large piece of wood. This literalism was manifested in another early photo work, All My Clothes (1973; Los Angeles, CA, Mus. Contemp. A.), in which he presented himself dressed in each of his outfits. By the early 1980s Ray extended this absurdity to generate a more deadpan manipulation of Minimalist iconography. In Ink Box (1986; Newport Beach, CA, Orange Co. Mus. A.), a large cube is filled to the brim with ink, giving the illusion of a solid cube. In the 1990s he used mannequins in his sculptures, for example in Family Romance (1993; E. and P. Norton, priv. col. see 1998 exh. cat., pp. 389), where mom, dad, brother and sister are all presented at the same height (the height of the artist), so that the nuclear family becomes a grotesque comment on the illusion of 'normality'. Ray takes conventions, whether they are from art history or the shop window, and uses them to re-present identity and perception as coded assumptions that can be destabilized with disturbing ease by his deadpan reconfigurations. (Catherine M. Grant. "Ray, Charles." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. 11 Mar. 2009 .)
Work Style Period:
20th century
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20th century
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false
Work Style Period:
Contemporary
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Contemporary
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Work Subject:
female
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female
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Work Subject:
mannequins (costume equipment)
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mannequins (costume equipment)
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Work Subject:
scale (relative size)
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scale (relative size)
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Work Subject:
women (female humans)
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women (female humans)
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false
Work Subject:
figures
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figures
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Work Subject:
Greece, ancient
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Greece, ancient
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Work Worktype:
sculpture (visual works)
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sculpture (visual works)
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Work Worktype:
installations (visual works)
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installations (visual works)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
sculptures and installations
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sculptures and installations
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false
Work Material and Technique (display):
mixed media
Work Measurements (display):
96 in (H) x 26 in (W) x 36 in (D)
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
private collection
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
repository
Image Source Reproduction citation:
Collins, Judith. Sculpture Today. New York: Phaidon Press, 2007.
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Collins, Judith. Sculpture Today. New York: Phaidon Press, 2007.
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false
Image Source Reproduction refid:
978-0-7148-4314-18
Image Source Reproduction page number:
392
Image Source Reproduction plate-figure number:
392
Image Source Reproduction refid type:
ISBN
Image Rights (display):
© Donald Young Gallery
Image Rights fair use checklist:
1) use of this image is for education and educational research; 2) access is restricted to University of Colorado and Auraria Higher Education Center communities; 3) the original photographer is credited if known; 4) the image is published; 5) the amount of the work in relation to the whole is needed for education or educational research; 6) the number of derivatives is the minimum required for education or educational research; 7) the image has not been found to be reasonably available for sale; 8) duplication of the image does not violate preexisting contracts.
Work Rights (display):
© Charles Ray
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado at Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
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