Harvard Art Museums > 2008.308: Cover for a Foreign Object Prints Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Cover for a Foreign Object (Liliana Porter) , 2008.308,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 27, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/330593. This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2008.308 People Liliana Porter, Argentinian (Buenos Aires, Argentina born 1941) Title Cover for a Foreign Object Other Titles Original Language Title: Cubierta Para un Objeto Extranjero Classification Prints Work Type print Date 1970 Culture Argentinian Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/330593 Physical Descriptions Medium Etching on off-white wove paper with black yarn Technique Etching Dimensions sheet: 71 × 55.5 cm (27 15/16 × 21 7/8 in.) platemark: 44.5 × 34.2 cm (17 1/2 × 13 7/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: l.r in pencil: Lilliana Porter, 70 inscription: l.l in pencil: "Cubierta para un objecto extranjero" inscription: l.c in pencil: a/p State, Edition, Standard Reference Number Edition Artist Proof Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund Copyright © Liliana Porter Accession Year 2008 Object Number 2008.308 Division Modern and Contemporary Art Contact am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description This print was printed as an edition. Porter printed them herself in her own workshop, so never printed the whole edition, but would print a few as needed. The Fogg's print is an artist proof. Commentary First, as part of the printmaking group New York Graphic Workshop, and then on her own, Porter has been one of the most influential artists of her generation to emerge from Latin America. Both of these prints were part of a series that Porter started in 1967 when, as she says "tried to simplify my vocabulary and start to work with what I perceived at the time as simple images: a string, a wrinkle of paper, a small shadow, a nail, etc." Porter is still interested in the play of the represented image and the real object being at the same level, as in the actual string and the soft ground etching of the string in Stitch. Cover for a Foreign Object references for Porter things that are never completely understood and that always remain on a mysterious level. Exhibition History A Female Landscape and the Abstract Gesture, Radcliffe Institute Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, 02/05/2024 - 06/22/2024 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
