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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1996.22
People
Yasumasa Morimura, Japanese (1951 - )
Title
Ambiguous Beauty/Amimai-no-bi
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1995
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/282962

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Photomechanical print
Dimensions
actual: 29.5 x 50 x 3 cm (11 5/8 x 19 11/16 x 1 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Anonymous Owner, gift from the Peter Norton Family Christmas Proj, 1995, gift to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1996.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Gift in honor of Branden W. Joseph
Accession Year
1996
Object Number
P1996.22
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Richard Francis and Fumio Nanjo, A Cabinet of Signs: Contemporary Art from Post-Modern Japan, exh. cat., Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, England, 1991)
  • Norman Bryson, "Yasumas Morimura: Mother (Judith II)", Artforum International (January 1994), 70-71
  • Inside Out: Contemporary Japanese Photography, exh. cat., The Light Factory Photographic Arts Center (Charlotte, NC, 1994)

Exhibition History

  • About Face: Artist's Portraits in Photography, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 07/19/1997 - 10/12/1997

Verification Level

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