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Getting Our Bearings / John Coplans |
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When you explore, you must understand your starting place. These feet are surely right here, being examined by the artist himself. What could be some reasons that the artist lifted his heels off the floor?
This artist has made a practice of photographing fragments of his own body as an exploration of its artistic properties of form and line as well as a chronicle of the adventure of aging. This unusual artistic departure parallels current scientific investigations of the frontier of aging.
"We shall not cease from exploration
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 John Coplans (1920- ) Self-Portrait (Feet, Frontal), 1984 silver print Madison Art Center Purchase Fund
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