Untitled (Pollock / Titian) #4

Andrea Fraser

1984/2005

Andrea Fraser is most closely associated with the conceptually driven artistic practice known as institutional critique, which emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s with the work of such artists as Michael Asher, Daniel Buren, Hans Haacke, and Gordon Matta-Clark. Her work also engages with issues raised by the feminist movement of the mid-1970s and the so-called Pictures generation from the late 1970s. "Untitled (Pollock / Titian) #4" returns to a concept explored one of her older projects, an artist’s book she made in 1984 titled "Woman I / Madonna and Child 1506–1967." To make the book, essentially a parody of an art historical monograph, Fraser created a narrative from appropriated excerpts of art historical essays on the artists Willem de Kooning and Raphael and illustrated it with images that were made by superimposing and then rephotographing reproductions of paintings of women by the two artists. The book project was meant for distribution in museum and art bookstores, whereas "Untitled (Pollock / Titian) #4" was intended for display on the wall of the museum. By superimposing details of a painting depicting Venus and Cupid by Titian and a drip painting by Jackson Pollock, Fraser collapses Pollock’s gesture (commonly critiqued as male-dominated) onto Titian’s idealized representation of female beauty, creating a visual dissonance that renders both forms illegible. [Exhibition brochure text, 2010]

Artist Andrea Fraser (American, b. 1965)
Title Untitled (Pollock / Titian) #4
Date 1984/2005
Medium Digital chromogenic color print
Edition description 1/5
Dimensions unframed | 40 x 61 in.
Credit line University purchase, Parsons Fund, 2006
Object number WU 2006.0007

Technique chromogenic processes
digital printing
Work type photograph
Theme Gender and Sexuality

Focus on Photography: Recent Acquisitions
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 05/07/2010 - 07/26/2010

Atrium Winter 2008–Summer 2009
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 10/28/2008

Andrea Fraser, "What do I, as an artist, provide?"
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 05/11/2007 - 07/16/2007

Atrium installation Fall 2006 and Spring 2007
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 10/25/2006 - 04/29/2007

Andrea Fraser, "What do I, as an artist, provide?" 2007

Focus on Photography: Recent Acquisitions 2010

10/11/2006
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York

Inscription [UC, Friedrich Petzel Gallery label:] Andrea Fraser / [underlined] Untitled (Pollock/Titian) #4 / 1984/2005 / digital c-print / Ed. 1 of 5 / 40 x 61 inches / 101.6 x 154.9 cm / unframed / AF 05/007 / [gallery contact info at bottom of label.]

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