Book Drafts
Rosemarie Trockel
German, born 1952
1978–2003
A small preparatory drawing in pencil, ink, and colored pencil from Trockel’s Book Drafts series in which the artist tests words and rudimentary imagery—like a crudely drawn cross—to probe meaning and tone for a prospective book.
It reads like a fragment of thinking aloud: uneven, blocky capital letters scratched across the page, faint erasures and overlapping marks, and a simple red cross that make the work feel immediate, tentative, and slightly childlike.
By exposing the messy labor of drafting—text, doodle, and correction—Trockel collapses the divide between process and finished object, advancing conceptual art’s interest in language, materiality, and the feminist reworking of cultural symbols.
Medium
Fifty drawings in various mediums, including pencil, ink, and collage
Dimensions
see child records: dimensions vary
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Credit
Anonymous gift
Accession
699.2015.1-50
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