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Kiss on a Rope

2001

Alison Saar

(American, b. 1956)
published by

Blumenfeld Fine Art

Culture
America
Medium
color woodcut
Support
Nepal Cloud paper
Measurements
Sheet: 130.6 x 59.8 cm (51 7/16 x 23 9/16 in.); Image: 130.6 x 59.8 cm (51 7/16 x 23 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Dr. Gerard and Phyllis Seltzer Fund 2006.69
Edition
20
Copyright
Copyright
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print

Description

Saar, a sculptor who carves wood, also chisels flat boards to make prints. Like her three-dimensional works, Kiss on a Rope has a handmade look-an expressive roughness. The image could describe an affectionate moment between two individuals, but the disembodied heads also recall the history of violence against African Americans, in particular lynchings. The child of a racially mixed couple, the artist interpreted the two heads as representing a psychological severing from the body, much like the isolation felt by a couple during a passionate kiss.
Vertically oriented print with a rope down the center on which two disembodied heads with reddish-brown skin tones hang. The rope passes through the back of the head and the mouth of the two heads, hanging horizontally on the rope. The heads face each other, lips meeting with the rope visible in the gap between them. The background is filled with pale brown suggestions of wood grain with roughly oval streaks outlined in black ink.

Kiss on a Rope

2001

Alison Saar, Blumenfeld Fine Art

(American, b. 1956)
America

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