Description:
Poems fill page, literally stacked one on top of the other.
Label Text:
Excerpt from wall label “What Is Love: Selections from the Permanent Collection,” April 19 – June 3, 2007:
In this print Wang Hui-Ming painstakingly created woodcuts of a number of poems by various poets including Robert Bly, Robert Francis, David Ignatow, William Stafford, and Duane Ackerson. Within these texts many references to love can be found including, “somber in the morning sick of love and death the world is what I touch and see” to “I have forgotten to love her as I should.” In his work Wang often forged connections between visual imagery and poetry. A brochure published by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts offers the following observation about his work, “does the poem chose design, or does design choose the poem?” Wang echoes this statement in the lower right corner of this print with his own comments about the process of saying, reading, carving, and seeing these words, as well as the spaces between them. The format of this print seems to derive from the personals page of a newspaper, a place where relationships can be sought out and created. Wang was a professor of art at University of Massachusetts Amherst from 1964 to 1988. - Julie Thomson, (M.A. '07)
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