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This image is for study only, and may not accurately represent the object’s true color or scale…
Light Switch
This image is for study only, and may not accurately represent the object’s true color or scale…
This image is for study only, and may not accurately represent the object’s true color or scale. It should not be shared or reproduced without permission by the copyright holder.

Light Switch

Primary (1935–)
NationalityGerman, Europe
Datecirca 1970
MediumColor screenprint and collage
DimensionsSight: 33 3/4 × 23 7/8 in. (85.7 × 60.6 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Charles and Dorothy Clark, G1973.7.86
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Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object numberG1973.7.86
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Label Text
Klausen challenges conventional printmaking by incorporating actual manufactured objects into their work. In this print he utilizes a plastic light switch in his cold rendering of aspects of technology and the human female form, calling attention to depersonalization in a commodity-driven culture. He examines the manner in which the mass media framgents images and identities, recombining and transposing them at an accelerated rate in a continual procession of television commercials, magazine advertisements, and billboards.
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