Cultural Head
Marisol (Marisol Escobar)
Venezuelan and American, born France 1930–2016
1973
A lithograph in which Marisol composes a human face surrounded by a halo of repeated handprints that form a headdress and an elongated neck, using multiplicity of hands to suggest how identity is assembled and performed.
The slightly weary, closely rendered face at the center is immediately arresting, its features framed and extended by overlapping hand images—bright swathes of red, green, yellow and dense blue—radiating like a crown on rough, neutral paper.
Translating her sculptural, assemblage methods into print, Marisol uses repetition and collage-like motifs to critique and make visible the cultural construction of identity and persona.
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
composition (irreg.): 24 13/16 x 22 9/16" (63.1 x 57.3 cm); sheet (irreg.): 29 5/16 x 23 1/16" (74.5 x 58.5 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Celeste Bartos
Accession
8.1974
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