Label Text:
Excerpted label text from the Curatorial Fellowship exhibition “Eyes Are For Asking: Narratives in Photography,” March 24 – May 1, 2016:
Co-creator of the famous album cover of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, British Pop artist Peter Blake has a long history of collaging together popular cultural icons. In this print, an anonymous photographer’s studio tack board becomes a repository of sentimentality, nostalgia, desire, and fantasy. Unorthodox connections crop up between the amorous couple, the exotic other, and the branded commodity. The photographer may have used these images both as personal souvenirs and as artistic inspiration. The found photographs, advertisements, posters, and clippings appear reminiscent of a bygone era – with the exception of a few iconic figures still idolized today, like the image of Marilyn Monroe. The timeline of these images varies, but is overlaid with the perpetual “now” of the photographer’s capturing of them. Not only do these collected images demonstrate the direct link between photography and popular culture, but they also indirectly define the personal identities of the one who has collected them, as well as his patrons. -Gretchen Halverson (M.A. Art History ‘16) and Procheta Mukherjee Olson (M.F.A. Studio Art ‘17)
Link to share this object record:
https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=UM+1996.16 |
