I Hope You Learned Your Lesson
William T. Wiley
Description
Published by Landfall Press Inc., 63 West Ontario Street, Chicago, IL 60610.
Subject Matter:
Wiley's use of text here confronts the viewer with an age-old aphorism "I hope you learned your lesson," while infusing the work with a sense of irony and humor by creating the illusion of erasure and rewrites giving an instability to what reads as incontrovertible text. Adding an element of self-reference to the work, Wiley leaves the ghost of his birth year, 1937, visible as an erasure at the bottom left of the print.
Physical Description:
Print made to resemble a wood framed chalk board; dated lower left 1974; at lower right, artist's insignia a capital W within a circle.
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