Camper, from Documenta: The Super-Realists
Primary
Ralph Goings
(1928–)
Printer
Shorewood Atelier
NationalityAmerican, North America
Date1972
MediumFive-color lithograph
Edition Info232/300
DimensionsSheet: 23 13/16 × 34 3/8 in. (60.5 × 87.3 cm)
Image: 21 3/16 × 32 1/16 in. (53.8 × 81.5 cm)
Image: 21 3/16 × 32 1/16 in. (53.8 × 81.5 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Samuel S. Mandel, M.D., 1985.184
Keywords
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number1985.184
On View
Not on viewPhotorealists are interested more in the way photography structures vision than in the institution of media as subject matter. They adopt familiar images precisely for their banality, but tend to emphasize the beauty, rather than the offensiveness, of such imagery - to celebrate the uniqueness of the commonplace. In Camper, Ralph Goings apparently finds the lack of value judgement in photography conducive to capturing the beauty of the ordinary in contemporary culture.
Exhibitions
Richard Thorpe McLean
1972
Object number: 1984.106
