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Oak Oracle
Presented by Rose and Chris Prater through the Institute of Contemporary Prints 1980
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Oak Oracle
image: 803 × 571 mm
Presented by <a href="/search?gid=999999979" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Rose and Chris Prater</a> through the Institute of Contemporary Prints 1980
<p><b>P05554</b> OAK ORACLE 1980
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<br/>Inscribed ‘Tilson 1980’ bottom right and ‘Printers Proof’
<br/>Etching, printed at Kelpra Studio, published by the Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, Amsterdam in an edition of 75, 31 5/8×22 1/2 (80.2×57.2)
<br/>Presented by Rose and Chris Prater 1980
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<br/>Also one of the ‘Proscinemi Oracles’ series. The repetition of the green oak leaves over the image in this <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>print</span></a> also relates to the ‘Mantras’, in which a word (‘Pool’, ‘Seed’ etc.) is repeated with a stencil over a large square image. The Greek word in red is ‘Dodona’ and appears again in ‘Proscinemi, Dodona, the Oracle of Zeus’ 1978. The <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/photograph" title="Glossary definition for 'Photograph'"><span>photograph</span></a> is of Tilson's hand on a stone marked with circles. Several prints in the series have these photographs, taken during the artist's visit to Greece. The eyelets are a device Tilson has often used in prints to underline the physical identity of the work.
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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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2004-10-11T00:00:00
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body emotions, concepts and ideas formal qualities hand leaf oak people photographic plants and flowers repetition