Not Conceptual

Printer Kay Bradner American

1999

Not on view

In Not Conceptual, the artist Joseph Goldyne has humorously engaged recent art, creating a portfolio of prints that, using the very word "conceptual," argue in favor of the visual over the linguistic. To reinforce the artist's desire to "Remain receptive to images," Goldyne opens the portfolio with a colophon in which he affixed a detail of an eye and a mouth, juxtaposing looking at work versus talking about it. Goldyne also plays with language throughout the portfolio through the titles chosen for prints, his statements on the colophon and a separate "manifestoette," and the prints in which he makes words themselves--such as "conceptual" and "Sheraton"--the subject, unpacking their forms as well as the many words that can be created from a corporate brand. Other prints such as Art or Bust, "It May Be Beautiful, but That’s Just the Way it Looks," Cold Front, Switch, and "Fake" are beautifully produced drypoints, etchings, and aquatints that reveal Goldyne’s mastery of the various printmaking methods as well as knowledge of art history.

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Title: Not Conceptual
Series/Portfolio: Not Conceptual
Artist: Joseph Goldyne (American, born Chicago, Illinois, 1942)
Printer: Kay Bradner (American, 20th–21st century)
Date: 1999
Medium: Intaglio and monoprint
Dimensions: variable
Classification: Prints
Object Number: 2018.588.7.1–.13
Rights and Reproduction: © Joseph Goldyne
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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The Hard Cell: Chardin's Brioche Contemplated Against Goya's Wall, Joseph Goldyne, Etching, aquatint, and monotype — The Hard Cell: Chardin's Brioche Contemplated Against Goya's Wall
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Jewish Cemetery Palm, Colma, Joseph Goldyne, Etching, drypoint, and aquatint; sixth state — Jewish Cemetery Palm, Colma
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The Hard Cell, Joseph Goldyne, Etching and aquatint — The Hard Cell
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Jewish Cemetery Palm, Colma, Joseph Goldyne, Monoprint etching with plate tone; first state — Jewish Cemetery Palm, Colma
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