Pelvic and Bright (folio 5) from Stamped Indelibly
Robert Indiana
American, 1928–2018
1967
A page from Robert Indiana’s 1967 illustrated book in which the artist uses colored rubber-stamped letters on paper to treat a short poem as a bold, visual object.
The eye is caught by the crisp, centered geometry of bright-blue headings and name framing a softly hued green stanza, the stamped letters resembling signage against wide white margins and finished with Indiana’s faint penciled signature.
Working in stamped multiples, Indiana brought Pop Art’s commercial typography into book form, foregrounding language as both image and idea and helping to expand printmaking and conceptual uses of text in art.
Medium
One from an illustrated book with fifteen rubber stamps
Dimensions
composition (irreg.): 7 1/2 × 3 3/4" (19.1 × 9.5 cm); sheet: 9 1/2 × 6 1/2" (24.2 × 16.5 cm)
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Credit
John B. Turner Fund
Accession
94.1968.5
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