Part of: Seeing Through Someone Else's Hands (3 resources )
A person's hand can tell their story. When you look at someone's hand, you can tell what they do for a living, their hobbies, etc. A hand holds can also hold memories of; people and things that they've touched, , intimate moments, heartbreak and pass times.
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Mother's Kisses: detail of hand holding orb
Accession Number
1993/1.115.12
Title
Mother's Kisses: detail of hand holding orb
Artist(s)
Dotty Attie
Artist Nationality
American (North American)
Object Creation Date
1982
Medium & Support
lithograph with watercolor on B.F.K wove paper
Dimensions
6 in x 6 in (15.24 cm x 15.24 cm);7 1/4 in x 7 1/4 in x 3/4 in (18.4 cm x 18.4 cm x 1.9 cm);3 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in (8.9 cm x 8.9 cm)
Credit Line
Museum Purchase
Label copy
For more than twenty years Dotty Attie has adapted scenes from famous Old Master paintings, calling attention both to her sources and her reinterpretations. This lithograph culls the figures of Venus and Cupid from Bronzino's mid-16th century painting "The Exposure of Luxury." To this portrayal of incest she juxtaposes a series of details. These present fragments of their bodies, which fetishizes those anatomical parts. These details are interspersed with texts that comment ironically on this perverted mother-child relationship.
Subject matter
This detail of Venus' hand from Bronzino's mid-16th century painting "An Allegory with Venus and Cupid," also known as "Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time" has been sampled by Dottie Attie in the first image in this portfolio. By pulling Venus and Cupid from the original painting and adding details and text via the other pages from the portfolio such as this, Attie eliminates mythical references and symbols of Renaissance refinement and focuses in on the erotic undertones of the work.
Physical Description
This print shows a close up of a hand holding a golden sphere. The background is bluish-grey drapery.
Primary Object Classification
Print
Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary
Rights
If you are interested in using an image for a publication, please visit http://umma.umich.edu/request-image for more information and to fill out the online Image Rights and Reproductions Request Form.
Keywords
American (North American)
Figures
Venus
allegory (artistic device)
ball
crouching
cupids
feminists (people)
hands (animal components)
kisses
modern and contemporary art
mothers
nudes
seated
sons (people)
texts (documents)
1993/1.115.12
Title
Mother's Kisses: detail of hand holding orb
Artist(s)
Dotty Attie
Artist Nationality
American (North American)
Object Creation Date
1982
Medium & Support
lithograph with watercolor on B.F.K wove paper
Dimensions
6 in x 6 in (15.24 cm x 15.24 cm);7 1/4 in x 7 1/4 in x 3/4 in (18.4 cm x 18.4 cm x 1.9 cm);3 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in (8.9 cm x 8.9 cm)
Credit Line
Museum Purchase
Label copy
For more than twenty years Dotty Attie has adapted scenes from famous Old Master paintings, calling attention both to her sources and her reinterpretations. This lithograph culls the figures of Venus and Cupid from Bronzino's mid-16th century painting "The Exposure of Luxury." To this portrayal of incest she juxtaposes a series of details. These present fragments of their bodies, which fetishizes those anatomical parts. These details are interspersed with texts that comment ironically on this perverted mother-child relationship.
Subject matter
This detail of Venus' hand from Bronzino's mid-16th century painting "An Allegory with Venus and Cupid," also known as "Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time" has been sampled by Dottie Attie in the first image in this portfolio. By pulling Venus and Cupid from the original painting and adding details and text via the other pages from the portfolio such as this, Attie eliminates mythical references and symbols of Renaissance refinement and focuses in on the erotic undertones of the work.
Physical Description
This print shows a close up of a hand holding a golden sphere. The background is bluish-grey drapery.
Primary Object Classification
Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary
Rights
If you are interested in using an image for a publication, please visit http://umma.umich.edu/request-image for more information and to fill out the online Image Rights and Reproductions Request Form.
Keywords
American (North American)
Figures
Venus
allegory (artistic device)
ball
crouching
cupids
feminists (people)
hands (animal components)
kisses
modern and contemporary art
mothers
nudes
seated
sons (people)
texts (documents)
