Fall XIII (1992)

John Stezaker

collage

Classification:

Collage, Photograph

Materials:

Paper

Dimensions:

17.7 x 10.4 cm

Credit:

Purchased with the support of the Art Fund and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation through the Contemporary Art Society Acquisition Scheme, 2012

Scheme:

Fine Art Acquisition Scheme (2008-)

Ownership history:

Purchased from The approach by the Contemporary Art Society, with the support of the Art Fund and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, 2012; presented to York Art Gallery (York Museums Trust), 2012

Relationship:

The approach, London, Paris Art Fund (National Art Collections Fund) Esmée Fairbairn Foundation York Art Gallery

Subject:

Nudes, Male Body, Female Body, Anatomy, Life drawing

For Fall XII (1992) and Fall XIII (1992) Stezaker uses source material from an essential book by anatomist and anthropologist Arthur Thomson (1858-1935), A Handbook of Anatomy for Art Students (1896), a core text for students at the Slade School of Fine Art until the 1970s. The artist's collages at first, seamlessly combining two images, seem as if they are traditional nudes but in Fall XII, the front and the back of the figure are disconcertingly presented as one. And in Fall XIII, a male and female fugure are spliced together, the absence of faces and genitalia encouraging ambiguity.

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