Artist
Justine Kurland(American, born 1969)American, born 1969
CultureAmerican
Titles
- The Early Work (Excerpt)
Date2022
MediumCollage
DimensionsOverall: 34 × 24 1/2 in. (86.4 × 62.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Francis L. Lederer Foundation, courtesy of Sharon Lederer; Nena Marsh; Tania Pramir, in honor of Pratima Bagchi; and H. Rashed Haq in honor of Tayyba Kanwal
Object number2023.130
Non exposé
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Justine Kurland’s The Early Work (Excerpt) is formed entirely of images cut and rearranged from the Henri Cartier-Bresson catalogue of the same name. Kurland describes her efforts as “the destruction of my personal library of canonized white male photographers—men I was taught to revere, whose conventions I was meant to uphold; men who have taken up too much room psychically and physically.” Furthermore, Kurland states that “the violence operates as satire but is aimed at a very real set of problems: the lack of value assigned to women’s work, art, and lives.”
ProvenanceArtist; Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA, 2022; purchased by MFAH, 2023.
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