Harvard Art Museums > M26528: Pictures at an Exhibition Prints Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Add to Collection Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Pictures at an Exhibition (Glenn Ligon) , M26528,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 19, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/31246. Identification and Creation Object Number M26528 People Glenn Ligon, American (Bronx, NY born 1960) Title Pictures at an Exhibition Other Titles Series/Book Title: The Paper Sculpture Show Classification Prints Work Type print Date 2003 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/31246 Physical Descriptions Medium Offset photolithograph on two sheets of thin card stock Technique Photolithograph Dimensions sheet: 34 x 24.8 cm (13 3/8 x 9 3/4 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History Narayan and Natasha Khandekar, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, June 28, 2005. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Narayan and Natasha Khandekar Copyright © Glenn Ligon Accession Year 2005 Object Number M26528 Division Modern and Contemporary Art Contact am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Commentary This print is part of the Paper Sculpture Show. What the Paper Sculpture Show consists of is seventy-seven sheets of paper, by thirty artists (including two persons working together as a single "artist"), who have each created a sculpture that is to be cut out from one to four sheets of paper and assembled by a gallery visitor. The sheets were intended to be taken away from the gallery, that is, the paper sculpture show could occur in three dimensions in any space anywhere; but in the several exhibition venues where the sheets were available, the sculptures were made up and could be viewed as completed works of art. We already have a portfolio issued in 1995 in a large edition by The Sculpture Center in New York, in which sculptors make two-dimensional distillations of their sculptural aesthetic. "The Paper Sculpture Show" takes the process much further, and is more akin to the 1968 SMS portfolios, also in our collection, where offset photolithographic "things" -- some of which requiring assembly -- are bundled together, to be unpacked by the owners of the portfolios wherever they please . Fluxus boxes, while not usually requiring any assembly on the part of their owner, also require participation, even performance. SMS and Fluxus are essentially movements of the late 1960s; the Paper Sculpture show is their grandchild. Related Works M26514-M26542 Various Artists The Paper Sculpture Show Prints Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
