Doubled Abstraction: Ruth Asawa's Stamp and Its Afterlife

IF 0.3 2区 艺术学 0 ART Art History Pub Date : 2023-06-23 DOI:10.1111/1467-8365.12725
Isabel Bird
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In Ruth Asawa's final year at Black Mountain College, c. 1948–49, she used a rubber stamp borrowed from the laundry room and featuring the college's initials (BMC) to make a body of work. Three years later, a pattern derived from this work was mass-produced and marketed across the US under the name Alphabet – without attribution to Asawa, nor to the school for which the pattern's acronym stood. This essay examines the doubled abstraction of Asawa's stamp (in the sense of both material tool and figurative signature), as the letters that she first abstracted into images were subsequently disassociated from both her name and that of the school itself. By tracing Asawa's eventual reclamation of her authorship from this contextual abstraction, this essay makes a broader case for recognizing artistic practices of self-definition.

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双重抽象:露丝·阿萨瓦的邮票及其来龙去脉
1948年至49年,露丝·阿萨瓦(Ruth Asawa)在黑山学院(Black Mountain College)的最后一年,她用从洗衣房借来的一枚印有学院首字母缩写(BMC)的橡皮图章制作了一幅作品。三年后,这件作品衍生出的图案以字母表的名义在美国大规模生产和销售,但没有归属于Asawa,也没有归属于该图案首字母缩写所代表的学校。这篇文章考察了阿萨瓦邮票的双重抽象(从物质工具和具象签名的意义上),因为她最初抽象成图像的字母后来与她的名字和学校本身的名字都分离了。通过追踪阿萨瓦最终从这种语境抽象中重新获得的作者身份,本文为认识自我定义的艺术实践提供了更广泛的理由。
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期刊介绍: Art History is a refereed journal that publishes essays and reviews on all aspects, areas and periods of the history of art, from a diversity of perspectives. Founded in 1978, it has established an international reputation for publishing innovative essays at the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship, whether on earlier or more recent periods. At the forefront of scholarly enquiry, Art History is opening up the discipline to new developments and to interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approaches.
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