Vorwarts! (Go Forward!) by Jeff Wassmann (UEB contracted)
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- Synopsis
- This is an image of an assemblage by modern American artist Jeff Wassmann. It is an artwork made by putting together found objects. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the correct way up. The image shows several objects arranged in an antique-looking, brown picture frame. The frame fills most of the page. It is made from traditional wooden moulding. The frame is filled by an optometrists eye chart with large print characters N and H at the top and horizontal rows of increasingly small letters going down the page, finishing with a row of very small characters at the bottom of the frame. Just above the centre of the frame are five more objects. Attached to the left of the frame is a small brass bracket holding one end of a coiled spiral clock spring. The other end of the spring is attached to a similar bracket on the right of the frame. Also attached to this bracket is a teaspoon, seen from the front. Down the page from this is a denture, seen from the front so that it looks like half a smile. Many artists have used found objects in their work, probably starting in the early Twentieth Century with artists Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp and Vladimir Tatlin. Jeff Wassmann often adopted the identity of John Deiter Wassmann, a fictitious German modernist artist from the late Nineteenth Century who credited himself as being the creator of assemblage.
- Copyright:
- 2012
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Publisher:
- RNIB
- Date of Addition:
- 05/12/17
- Copyrighted By:
- RNIB
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Art and Architecture
- Submitted By:
- Caroline Walker
- Proofread By:
- N/A
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.