Screenprint on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
The Janus Suite
Collection
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Two Faces a Place
Presented by the artist 1982
Abertillery
abstraction
architecture
Blaenau Gwent
colour
defacement
emotions, concepts and ideas
formal qualities
gestural
industrial
industrial society
inscriptions
landscape
Leverett, David
literature (not Shakespeare)
literature and fiction
mine
mountain
non-representational
photographic
places
poem
rocky
social comment
society
symbols and personifications
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
Wales
paper print screenprint
Two Faces of a Place
image: 712 × 1050 mm
Presented by the artist 1982
<p><b>P02556</b> [from] THE JANUS SUITE 1977–9 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/leverett-lost-messages-p02553" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P02553</span></a>-<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/leverett-two-faces-of-a-place-p02556" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P02556</span></a>;<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/leverett-historical-utopias-revisited-p02465" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P02465</span></a>-<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/leverett-past-times-p02467" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P02467</span></a>;complete]
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<br/>Each inscribed ‘David Leverett 78’bottom right, two inscribed ‘1/16’ and two inscribed ‘1/15’
<br/>Four screenprints from a set of seven, printed and published by the artist, in range 23×35–28×41 3/8 (79.5×82–71.2× 105)
<br/>Presented by the artist 1982
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<br/>The first three of the seven <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>prints</span></a> which comprise ‘The Janus Suite’ are concerned with the inward-looking aspect of consciousness and the internalisation of experience (see <span>P02465</span>-<span>P02467</span>). The second half of the set (completed in 1979) contains the four prints listed here, and deals with the relationship between the inner self and outward reality. The texts used in the suite are the artist's own poems, written between 1972 and 1978.
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><i>The Tate Gallery 1980-82: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions</i>, London 1984
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-08T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
Abertillery abstraction architecture Blaenau Gwent colour defacement emotions, concepts and ideas formal qualities gestural industrial industrial society inscriptions landscape Leverett, David literature and fiction literature (not Shakespeare) mine mountain non-representational photographic places poem rocky social comment society symbols and personifications UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions Wales