Description:
Image of a red book, on which is printed a cartoon of a woman sitting in a chair with head in hands. Title: "I MARRIED AN ARTIST by Billy Button"

Label Text:
Label text from “The Art of Collecting: Contemporary Prints from the Risa Gerrig Collection,” September 10 – October 12, 2014:
Collier and Higgs appropriate a graphic book cover in this print, creating a humorous commentary on their personal lives as married artists. The married couple utilizes this image to express a personal view of their relationship as experienced through their dual identities as artists and as the spouse of an artist. This print illustrates the notion of art as idea and ingenuity, emphasizing the significance of appropriation by demonstrating the difference between an original work and an individual’s idea or copy of an original. - Felicia Bolaske (B.A. ‘14)

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