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Black Dice

  • Peter Blum Edition, Peter Kneubühler, John Baldessari, Black Dice, 1982, Smithsonian American Art Museum, © 1982, Peter Blum Edition and Blumarts, Inc., New York, Museum purchase, 1993.31.1A-I

Exhibition Label
Black Dice is based on a still photograph derived from an English gangster film of that name. The photograph represents a split second from a longer, continuous narrative. The artist divided the image into nine equal sections and developed each as an independent abstract composition in which key elements of the original scene remain identifiable. Baldessari is interested in things exploding and imploding, and being disjunctive. He likes to include the original movie still when the prints are exhibited so that the viewer can better understand the individual parts as well as the whole.

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Title
Black Dice
Artists
Peter Blum Edition (Publisher)
Peter Kneubühler (Printer)
John Baldessari
Date
1982
On View
Not on view.
Dimensions
sheet: 16 1/2 x 19 3/4 in. (41.9 x 50.2 cm)
Copyright
© 1982, Peter Blum Edition and Blumarts, Inc., New York
Credit Line

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Museum purchase

Classifications
Graphic Arts
Print
Keywords
  • Architecture Interior – commercial – hotel
  • Figure male
  • State of being – evil – danger
Object Number
1993.31.1A-I
Palette
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