print;
portfolio
- Museum number
- 2014,7088.10.10
- Title
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Object: Caution - There is no Avant-Garde
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Series: The Sydney Morning, vol. 4
- Description
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The word 'CAUTION' in yellow letters within a black rectangle above the phrase "THERE IS NO / AVANT-GARDE / ONLY THOSE WHO / HAVE BEEN LEFT / BEHIND" in black letters within a rectangle delineated by a black outline and set against a bright yellow background. 1994
Screenprint on wove paper
- Production date
- 1992
- Dimensions
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Height: 220 millimetres (image, irreg)
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Height: 220 millimetres (sheet, irreg)
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Width: 282 millimetres (irreg)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This screenprint comes from the fourth of four portfolios of prints by Richard Tipping titled 'The Sydney Morning', volumes 1-4, published between 1989 and 1994. It is one of 14 screenprints included in volume 4, which was published in 1994. In a note included in the portfolio the artist has written of this work: "The first in this series was 'DANGER - POSTMODERNISM DOESN'T GIVE A FLYING DUCK' in 1992 (V.III) [2014,7088.9.12], included with my works for the Sydney Biennale that year. Next came this CAUTION sign, produced at first as a multiple (unnumbered & unsigned, using industrial materials) printed on corrugated plastic sheet. There were 100 of these, released as a part of the Sculpture Triennial in Melbourne in September 1993, and featured on that month's cover of 'Art Monthly'. See Peter Timm's interesting editorial comments on the subject in that issue."
All the prints in this volume were screenprinted by Richard Tipping and Michael Lenehan on Magnani Pescia paper for Thorny Devil Press in Wangi Wangi, Lake Macquarie, Australia. The BM copy is numbered 24 in pencil on the frontispiece/colophon. The volume was printed in an edition of between 80 and 92 copies but only the first 60 were boxed in sets.
For more information on 'The Sydney Morning' series and volume 4 specifically, see 2014,7088.10.1.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2014
- Acquisition notes
- Presented by the artist
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2014,7088.10.10