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Kay Rosen1989
- Attribution
- Kay Rosen American, born 1943
- Medium
- Enamel sign paint on canvas
- Physical dimensions
- 40.6 × 25.4 cm (16 × 10 in.)
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Armstrong Prize Fund
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Source rights statement: © 1988 Kay Rosen.
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Kay Rosen uses words and letters as a means of examining the ways in which language structures knowledge— particularly in terms of awareness of self and place. Generally concerned with formal configurations of words and letters and with the gamesmanship involved in the deconstruction and reconstruction of language, her exceedingly clever, diagrammatic works consist of common phrases, poetic verse, and word plays based on synonyms and homonyms. These black-and-white paintings form a cornerstone of Rosen’s work from the late 1980s onward, reflecting an early and ongoing interest in themes such as systems and symmetry, the structure of individual letterforms, comparative structures of words, and humor.
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