© John Stezaker
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Tabula Rasa VI,
2005
John Stezaker, British, born 1949
2013-7
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Didactics
In Stezaker’s collages, appropriated images are given new meanings through elegant juxtapositions that almost always conceal and therefore alter the pictures’ original meanings. Stezaker’s source material is taken from books, magazines, promotional photographs, or historical postcards. Through his juxtaposed repurposings, Stezaker’s art calls into question the use of the photographic image. In this series, a publicity Hollywood film still overlaid with a blank white space—a tabula rasa—becomes an unsolvable narrative riddle ripe for our projections.
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Title
Tabula Rasa VI
Dates
2005
Maker
Medium
Cut paper collaged onto found photograph
Dimensions
27 × 36.5 cm (10 5/8 × 14 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Mary Trumbull Adams Art Fund
Object Number
2013-7
Place Made
Europe, England
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