%C2%A9 Terry Winters
Untitled (plate 1), from "Fourteen Etchings", 1989
Etching, aquatint, photogravure, and hand-drawn Mylar gravure on Japan paperexpand_more
Gift of Emily Galusha and Donald McNeilexpand_more 2012.102.1
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"Fourteen Etchings" was originally conceived to illustrate Edgar Allan Poe’s prose poem "Eureka" (1848), a lengthy and mostly intuitive exposition on the origin, essence, and destiny of the material and spiritual universe. Winters later altered his approach to focus on the dichotomous interplay between invented and natural forms, juxtaposing hand-drawn images of forms that imitate natural systems with luminous photogravures of X-ray images of human skulls, legs, arms, and hands. Though Winters abandoned a more literal interpretation of Poe’s poem, he nonetheless addressed some of the themes found there, such as the origin and meaning of the universe and man’s destiny after death. In their totality, Winters’s images evoke the mysteries of the natural world, tempered by the haunting reality of human mortality.
Details
- Title
- Untitled (plate 1), from "Fourteen Etchings"
- Artist Life
- born 1949
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2012.102.1
- Provenance
- Don McNeil and Emily Galusha, Minneapolis; given to MIA, 2012.
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Sojka 34
- Curator Approved
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