Front, Lesley Dill; Landfall Press

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Lesley Dill; Landfall Press, Front
Lesley Dill; Landfall Press, Front
Lesley Dill
Front
1994
Lesley Dill
born 1950
Front, 1994
Portfolio/Series title: A Word Made Flesh
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: etching; stitching; aquatint; photolithograph
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 624 x 455 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 762 x 567 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 24 9/16 x 17 15/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 30 x 22 5/16 in
Frame Dimensions (Height x Width x Depth): 31 1/4 x 23 1/2 x 1 1/4 in
Weight (Weight): 8 lbs
Credit line: Gift of Joe and Barb Zanatta
Accession number: 1996.0175
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "Modernisms: Late/Post," Mar-1997, Deborah J. Wilk To explore the relationship between language and the body, Lesley Dill scrawls an Emily Dickinson poem onto a female figure. Words, Dill Says, facilitate the way the body negotiates the world by forming a "protective skin" that dresses the body in "vulnerability, fear, and hope." Dill is less interested in identity politics than most of the artists in this section. Instead, she exposes the stictness of Modernist art criticism that would have prohibited the combination of thread, a craft material, with printmaking.