L.A. Eye Works
Primary
Jim Dine
(Cincinnati, Ohio, 1935– )
NationalityAmerican, North America
Date1982
MediumEtching, aquatint, and carborundum on four sheets
Edition Info9/1/70
Catalogue raisonnéD'Oench & Feinberg 116
DimensionsSheet: 24 5/8 × 21 1/2 in. (62.5 × 54.6 cm)
Additional Dimension: 43 1/2 × 37 1/4 in. (110.5 × 94.6 cm)
Additional Dimension: 43 1/2 × 37 1/4 in. (110.5 × 94.6 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Archer M. Huntington Museum Fund, 1984.68
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Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number1984.68.a-d
On View
Not on viewDine's painterly images of everyday objects convey the often deadpan attitude of Pop artists toward the quality of human experience in a commercial-oriented culture. Dine's frequent use of heart imagery becomes in L.A. Eye Works both a banal symbol of human emotion and a pun on the title of the print. Simultaneously forming the shapes of four hearts and two pairs of spectacle frames, the imagery acts as a "window to the soul" in an ultimately whimsical fashion.
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