Title
Go army, 1968, from the portfolio The Sydney Morning, vol II: word works 1967-1991
1991
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1991
- Media category
- Materials used
- letterpress print on white wove paper
- Edition
- 37/60
- Dimensions
- 28.4 x 22.0 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r. corner, pencil "RKT 91".
- Credit
- Gift of Richard Tipping 2017. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 93.2017.6
- Copyright
- © Richard Tipping
- Artist information
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Richard Tipping
Works in the collection
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About
By word works I mean visual/verbal or image/language/sign interactions which play between levels of message, medium and meaning; between text and context; between title and content; combining or manipulating or deleting elements to create a floating springboard to regions more lateral. These prints are not 'copies' of visual poems or word sculptures existing somewhere else: they are, each, originals.
Printed on a Grafix Letterpress Proving Press at the Graphic Investigation Workshop of the Canberra School of Art.The first six in this set are from the late 60s. Three 'pure' concrete typographs from 1967-68 (written aged seventeen and eighteen) are placed in counterpoint with three short poems from 1968-70 which have visual - and phonic - elements inherent in their composition. The second six are works depending for their effect on the 'visual utterance' of font, layout and composition: the word as image. Three of these are from the late 70s (1977-80), and three very recent (1991). Some have been printed or made as sculpture previously, but each has been approached freshly here in the context of the 280 x 220 mm sheets, each page hand-torn.
Richard Tipping, 1989 & 1991.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Richard Tiipping: hear the art, Eagle Gallery, London, 06 Feb 1997–02 Mar 1997
Richard Tipping: versions, perversions, subversions & verse, UBU Gallery, New York, 12 Dec 1998–16 Jan 1999
Avoiding myth & message: Australian artists and the literary world, Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia, 07 Apr 2009–12 Jul 2009
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Glenn Barkley, Avoiding myth & message: Australian artists and the literary world, Sydney, 44-45 (colour illus.), 62-63. Catalogue entry
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Stephen Coppel, Richard Tipping: hear the art, Essay, Greater London, 1997.
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Alex Selenitsch., Overland, Review "Sing sign", Melbourne, 1993, 88-89.
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