Screenprint on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Rose and Chris Prater
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/john-piper-1774" aria-label="More by John Piper" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">John Piper</a>
Eye and Camera Red Blue and Yellow
Presented by Rose and Chris Prater 1980
abstraction
adults
clothing and personal items
colour
dress: fantasy/fancy
emotions, concepts and ideas
erotic
eroticism
female
figure
formal qualities
from recognisable sources
inscriptions
newspaper - non-specific
non-representational
nudes
objects
people
photographic
printed text
reading, writing, printed matter
repetition
sex and relationships
society
stocking
symbols and personifications
woman
paper print screenprint
Eye and Camera, Red, Blue and Yellow
image: 400 × 606 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> 1980
<p><b>P05564</b> EYE AND CAMERA, RED, BLUE AND YELLOW 1980
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<br/>Inscribed ‘Piper’ bottom right
<br/>Screenprint, from the Kelpra/Tate Gallery portfolio, printed at Kelpra Studio and published by Kelpra Editions and the Tate Gallery in an edition of 150, 15 3/4×23 7/8 (40× 60.5)
<br/>Presented by Rose and Chris Prater 1980
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<br/>One of an extensive series of <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> titled ‘Eye and Camera’, the first of which were made in 1967. For these prints, which are distinctly different from his topographical work, Piper uses photographic images fragmented and <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/collage" title="Glossary definition for 'Collage'"><span>collaged</span></a>, and juxtaposed with <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a>. For information about 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/portfolio" title="Glossary definition for 'Portfolio'"><span>portfolio</span></a> see Patrick Caulfield, <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/caulfield-dressed-lobster-p05560" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P05560</span></a>.
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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
2004-10-11T00:00:00
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abstraction adults clothing and personal items colour dress: fantasy/fancy emotions, concepts and ideas erotic eroticism female figure formal qualities from recognisable sources inscriptions newspaper - non-specific non-representational nudes objects people photographic printed text reading, writing, printed matter repetition sex and relationships society stocking symbols and personifications woman