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Silvia Kolbowski
Model Pleasures III1983

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Ten framed panels in two rows combining black-and-white commercial line drawings of jewelry and shoes with product labels, cursive text on black, and color and black-and-white photographs of women's feet and legs in high heels
Black and white print with bold outline style, divided into two panels: text reading "Bikini Anklet" above, and a line drawing of a high-heeled pump with cord wrapped around the ankle below.
Black and white drawing with bold outlines, a woman's foot in a high-heeled pump wearing an anklet with a heart charm, below the text "Charm Anklet" in a ruled header box
Print with bold black text reading "Long Loop Choker" above a minimal line drawing of a headless torso wearing a narrow looped necklace, rendered in sparse black outlines on white.
Framed print with bold black line drawing of a hand wearing a multi-strand bracelet at the wrist, beneath text reading "4-Layered Bracelet" in a bordered header.
Grainy black and white photograph, extreme close-up of a pale human leg or arm extending diagonally across a dark background, with heavy halftone dot texture suggesting reproduction from a printed source.
Framed panel with solid black background and the word "Crave" in large white cursive script centered across the composition.
Text-based artwork, a white card angled diagonally against a black background within a black frame, printed with a passage in serif type where several words are struck through and replaced: "There was something she carved craved; something which cost cast its spilt spell upon me, while it still remained remained unseen unseen..."
Black and white print with white line drawing on solid black background; two hands carving a whole roasted bird on a platter with garnishes, rendered in bold, flat graphic style.
Close-up photograph printed on canvas, a foot wearing a dark strappy high-heeled sandal against a pale neutral background, rendered with heavy halftone dot grain giving a soft, blurred quality.
Color photograph, extreme close-up of a single strappy metallic sandal at the lower left, partially obscured by a draped red fabric, against a deep dark red-brown background.
Heavily pixelated or screen-printed image, tightly cropped view of two pairs of legs standing on green grass, casting shadows, warm brown tones with visible dot-matrix grain texture.
Gelatin silver print, extreme close-up of a large sheet of white paper held in one hand, partially obscuring a woman's face visible at upper right, with high contrast and visible grain.
Artist or Maker
Silvia Kolbowski
Argentina, active United States, born 1953
Title
Model Pleasures III
Date Made
1983
Medium
(8) Gelatin silver prints, (4) Dye coupler prints
Dimensions
a-L) Framed: 8 1/4 x 10 x 3/4 in. (20.96 x 25.4 x 1.91 cm) each
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by the Ralph M. Parsons Fund
Accession Number
M.2009.22a-L
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography
  • Molesworth, Helen. This Will Have Been: Art, Love, and Politics in the 1980s. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; New Haven, Conn.: In association with Yale University Press, 2012.
  • Burton, Johanna and Anne Ellegood. 2014. Take it or Leave it: Institution, Image, Ideology. Los Angeles: Hammer Museum.
  • Shaked, Nizan. The Synthetic Proposition: Conceptualism and the Political Referent in Contemporary Art. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017.
  • Morse, Rebecca. Objects of Desire: Photography and the Language of Advertising. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2022.
Copyright
© Silvia Kolbowski