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There Are Some

Gerome Kamrowski

Artwork Details

There Are Some
1943
Gerome Kamrowski
paint, ink, photograph and printed paper assemblage
20 3/4 x 19 x 1 3/4 in. (52.71 x 48.26 x 4.45 cm)
Museum Purchase made possible by the Friends of the Museum of Art
1988/2.6

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Kamrowski’s box works were largely executed during a summer spent in Woodstock, New York; this work uses collaged materials set within a shadow-box construction. The inclusion of collage in works of art began with the Cubists and Dadaists, and remained an integral component of Max Ernst’s prints. Here technical prints of machines, heightened with white, are combined with a photograph of an industrial site and an allegorical figure of winter. The enigma of these components is further heightened by the black and pink setting of the shadow-box. The inscription, ". . . there are some things," is overlapped by the levels of the interior structure, lending this work a Dada-like complexity.
Label copy from exhibition "Dreamscapes: The Surrealist Impluse," August 22 - October 25, 1998

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