Anorexia Girl, Jenny Schmid

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Jenny Schmid, Anorexia Girl
Jenny Schmid, Anorexia Girl
Jenny Schmid
Anorexia Girl
2003
Jenny Schmid, artist
born 1969
Anorexia Girl, 2003
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: Rives BFK™ paper; color lithograph
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 557 x 763 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 557 x 763 mm
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 30 x 36 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Gift of Colette and Jeff Bangert
Accession number: 2005.0055
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: “Embodiment,” Nov-2005, Kate Meyer Jenny Schmid explains “when the psychology is important I make the heads of my figures really big.” The psychology of Anorexia Girl is clearly important. She reclines like an odalisque, and her fight with her demons is aptly summed up by the artist’s pun “die / t,” that appears on one of the historical vignettes that populates this dense image. The vignette is derived from one of Hans Holbein the Younger’s sixteenth-century woodcuts on the theme of the Dance of Death.