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The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984
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James Welling (American, b. 1951)
And Should…, 1974
Collage in three parts; 10 x 18 in. (25.4 x 45.7 cm)
Collection of the artist
© James Welling
Courtesy David Zwirner, New York
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For his MFA thesis exhibition, Welling presented examples from his series Men, along with even more provisional-looking works that floated free from any particular medium—collage seems too potent for these enigmatic presentations of excised magazine pages—and put both artist and viewer in the strange position of being understood by the image rather than vice versa. "Images compose our preconceptions of the possible," Welling said in a conversation with David Salle, published in 1980, "and in that sense we are their product."
Listen to James Welling comment on this work in an excerpt from the exhibition's Audio Guide.
Transcript
In the Winston ads, a piece called And/Should—I was interested in this expression "And should," which was an abbreviation for "There's a Lot of Good Between Winston and Should." And this imperative, this "should," seemed both humorous and interesting in terms of aesthetics, pointing at what to look at—you should look at this—that visual art is about pointing.
Produced by Antenna Audio.
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