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Maker(s):French, Jared
Culture:American (1905-1988)
Title:Libido
Type:Drawing
Materials:Graphite on tan wove paper
Measurements:Sheet: 12 3/8 in x 9 7/16 in; 31.4 cm x 24 cm
Accession Number:  AC 2012.243
Credit Line:Museum Purchase with funds donated by Andrew J. Shilling (Class of 1989) and Kirsten N. Shilling; Jennifer S. Stein (Class of 1993) and Josh B. Stein; and A. Gary Shilling (Class of 1959) and Margaret B. Shilling.
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Label Text:
In 1961, French began a series of sketches that deviated drastically from his former highly-ordered, rigid figurative aesthetic. His sketches from the 1960s, in contrast, contain often rather grotesque biomorphic forms. At first glance they appear to be rocks, and at second glance, living organisms--to varying degrees humanoid. Although they look very different, these compositions engage the same themes of sexuality and the psyche, perhaps denoting a deeper layer of the unconscious--where Jung imagined the "birth place of spiritual, inner and complete man."

MD, 2013

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