Barbara Kasten
Untitled (abstract with three-dimensional cube)

Untitled (abstract with three-dimensional cube)

© Barbara Kasten

Untitled (abstract with three-dimensional cube)
Untitled (abstract with three-dimensional cube)
ArtistAmerican, born 1936
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Untitled (abstract with three-dimensional cube)
  • from the portfolio L.A. Issue: A Portfolio of Photography from Los Angeles
Date1979
PlaceUnited States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 15 7/8 × 19 7/8 in. (40.3 × 50.5 cm)
Sheet: 15 7/8 × 19 7/8 in. (40.3 × 50.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Clinton T. Willour on the occasion of the Fifteenth Anniversary of the Photography Department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Object number91.1595.11
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Photography
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DescriptionUntitled is an enlargement of a 4 x 5 inch negative made as a photogram of a studio construction with a cube. Barbara Kasten, who first trained in textile and sculpture, initially began to use photography as a medium that could extend her three-dimensional art practice. Interested in how the architectonics of space (i.e., architecture and constructed space) could be translated through photography, she makes photographs with and without a camera, both of constructed models in her studio and of actual, built environments.
ProvenanceClinton T. Willour, Houston; given to MFAH, 1991.
Exhibition History“The Will to Architecture,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, April 1–July 6, 2014.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed and dated in pencil on recto at lower right corner: "Barbara Kasten 1979"

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