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tribute to a stolen rabbit

Artist / Maker King Au (Chinese-American, born 1960)

Date1995

OriginUSA

MediumPhotograph

Dimensions29 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. (74.9 x 24.1 cm)

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineCommissioned for the exhibition "Interpretations of the Interpretations: Photographic Explorations by King Au of Iowa State University's Art on Campus Collection" presented in 1995 at the Brunnier Art Museum. Purchased with by University Museums Acquisition Fund. In the permanent collection, University Museums, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.

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Object numberum95.40

Status

Not on view

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Label TextArt Thief - poem All art defines itself by what's left out: the city in Gauguin's paradise, corners in Henry Moore. Think of Renoir's vase filled with chrysanthemums, how the room has disappeared, the tabletop itself barely a suggestion. My technique perfects such absences. It's what astonishes: the empty hook, the blank place on the wall, the vacant pedestal. I leave behind the plaque to name the space, the pure ideal you wanted all along but didn't realize, and lumber into darkness with a load of imperfections heavy on my back. No need to thank me. -- Neal Bower

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