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The Reinvention of the Work of Art
Anne Collins Goodyear
National Portrait Gallery Smithsonian Institution
Walter Benjamin, Passport Photo
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Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” 1936
(first English translation, 1968)
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917Photograph by Alfred Stieglitz
The Blind Man, no. 2 (1917)
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917/1964
(Edition of 8, from Stieglitz photograph)
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917/1963Selected by Ulf Linde
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917Photograph by Alfred Stieglitz
“[W]ith his little suitcase, his own MISE EN BOITE ET EN VALISE, he will slip very freely into the twenty-first
century and all the rest.” Denis de Rougement, 1945
Marcel Duchamp, Box in a Valise (From or by Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy). 1935-41. Museum of Modern Art, New York
Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #65 / Lines not short, not straight, crossing and touching, drawn at random using four colors, uniformly dispersed with
maximum density, covering the entire surface of the wall., l971red, yellow, blue, and black colored pencil
Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, National Gallery of Art
(detail)
Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #65 / Lines not short, not straight, crossing and touching, drawn at random using four colors, uniformly dispersed with
maximum density, covering the entire surface of the wall., l971red, yellow, blue, and black colored pencil
Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, National Gallery of Art
“The Machine is the Idea that
Makes the Work”—Sol Le Witt, 1967
Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #65 / Lines not short, not straight, crossing and touching, drawn at random using four colors, uniformly dispersed with
maximum density, covering the entire surface of the wall., l971red, yellow, blue, and black colored pencil
Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, National Gallery of Art
Chuck Close, Maquette for
Big Self-Portrait, 1968.
Four gelatin-silver prints
scored with ink,
masking tape, and airbrush
Paint mounted on foamcore, 30
x 24” Private Collection
Chuck Close, Big Self-
Portrait, 1968Acrylic on
canvas, 107-1/2 x 83-1/2.Walker Art
Center
Chuck Close, Maquette for Self-
Portrait, 1968.Ink and felt-tip pen
on collaged photograph, 20 x16 “
Private Collection
Chuck Close, Self-Portrait,
1968.Pencil on
Paper, 29 x 23 in.
Collection of MFA Boston.
Chuck Close, Keith/1,280, 1973 Ink and graphite on paper, 21½ x 17¼
in. (54.6 x 43.7 cm.)
Tom Friedman, Untitled, 1998Chromogenic print
24-1/4 x 46 in. (61.6 x 116.8 cm)Metropolitan Museum of Art
Purchase, Jennifer and Joseph Duke Gift, 1999
Jason Salavon, Flayed Figure, Male, 3277 ½
square inches (1998/2001)Laminated digital C-print,
69 x 47½ inches
Jason Salavon, Flayed Figure, Male, 3277 ½ square inches (1998/2001)
Laminated digital C-print, 69 x 47½ inches
Detail of image at left
Tom Friedman, Untitled, 1998Chromogenic print 24 1/4 x 46 in. (61.6 x 116.8 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtPurchase, Jennifer and Joseph Duke Gift, 1999
Jason Salavon The Late Night Triad, 2003Three synced single-channel digital projectionsRunning time: 3 min 35 sec looped. Dimensions variable. Ed. 3 + 1 APs.National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Lincoln Schatz, Selections from Esquire’s Portrait of the Twenty-First Century, 2008(Jeff Bezos, Le Bron James, and J. Craig Venter)Generative video, dimensions variable, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Jason Salavon The Late Night Triad, 2003Three synced single-channel digital projections
Running time: 3 min 35 sec looped. Dimensions variable. Ed. 3 + 1 APs.
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Jeff Bezos
LeBron James
Schatz’s filming “Cube”
Samantha Power
Lincoln Schatz, Selections from Esquire’s Portrait of the Twenty-First Century, 2008(Jeff Bezos, Le Bron James,Samatha Power and J. Craig Venter)Generative video, dimensions variable, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
J. Craig Venter
Hasan ElahiTracking Transience: The Orwell Project, 2003-Present
Screen ShotOctober 29, 2012
Screen ShotDecember 22, 2011
Hasan Elahi, Tracking Transience: Security and Comfort, 2007
C-Print, in 7 sections, 60 x 120 inches
