- Title:
- Xerox City (Diptych)
- Part Of:
Collective Title: Kilometre Theatre and Seven Other Seminal Architectural Projects
- Date:
- 1998
- Materials & Techniques:
- Screen print on 400gsm Somerset Satin white wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 35 × 29 inches (88.9 × 73.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered upper left to lower right: "enlarged and printed out end- | lessly, as the architect positions him- | self in the work " to maintain a sense of | proportion " | The original plan for the city was based on a | photocopy of the artist's genitals, faxed to a col- | league for design modification | and structurally engineered through modern | technology. Phase two pho- | tographs become slides and the city | is projected, at times invisible, and at | other times visible when projected on screens, | shirts, ties, dresses, mirrors and reflective surfaces, | some of which are moving, contracting, expanding and disappearing."; lettered with printed handwriting: "Concepts | not A | Fucking | CLUE"
Signed in graphite, lower right: "Bruce McLean"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- © The Artist
- Accession Number:
- B1999.3.17
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:33489
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Bruce McLean, Born 1944, British, Xerox City (Diptych), 1998
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