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Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University
571 South Kilgo Circle Atlanta, GA 30322 Phone: 404-727-4282 Fax: 404-727-4292 Map carlos.emory.edu
It is the special character of works on paper that they are scaled to the human body. Whether it is a woodcut, lithograph, drawing, or a printed book, these media are oriented toward the body in a way that diverges from painting, sculpture, and cinema. The books and works of art exhibited in Embodied Seeing: Modernist Works on Paper carry a sense of intimacy and tactility that are related to the hand and to the seated body. These works, however, like Wassily Kandinsky’s woodcut Schwarzer Fleck or Henri Matisse’s illustrated collection of late medieval French poems, Poèmes de Charles d’Orléans, are not meant to be viewed or read in traditional ways. They at once solicit many of the feelings associated with the intimacy of reading, but ultimately frustrate any effort to approach them as texts to be read or stories to be told. Rather, we look at these works, we see them, and we respond to them as visual phenomena of a highly sophisticated order. This exhibition will be on view in the John Howett Works on Paper Gallery. |
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