detail
A Person Looks At A Work of Art/
someone looks at something...
LOGOS/HA HA
(Portrait of the artist with ghost of White Cube)
1994
Medium
oil on board, photo-stencil screenprint, cibachrome photograph, plastic covered suspension wire
Measurements
(62.4 × 215.4 cm) (image and sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1995
© Courtesy of the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery
Gallery location
Gallery 11
Level 2, NGV Australia
About this work
Peter Tyndall makes conceptual art about people looking at art. Since the late 1970s he has given all his works the same title, each one described as a ‘detail’ of a continuous project. In this panel, photos of the artist are bracketed by the letters ‘L’ and ‘S’, a reference to logos, the Ancient Greek term for ‘word’. Its associated meanings range from thought, reason and order to the story of Creation in the Gospel of John, which begins, ‘In the beginning was the Word’. Paired with ‘HA HA’, Tyndall highlights the layered puns and meanings in his work.
Artwork Details
Inscription
inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on reverse of frame backing board u.l.: Title detail / A person Looks At A Work Of Art /(forward slash) / somesone looks at something.../ LOGOS /(forward slash) / HA HA / (Portrait of the artist with the ghost of White Cube) / Medium A Person Looks At A Work Of Art / (forward slash) / someone looks at something... / CULTURAL CONSUMPTION PRODUCTION / Date -1994- / Artist Peter Tyndall /
stamped on reverse of frame backing-board u.l.: FOSTERVILLE INSTITURE OF / APPLIED & PROGRESSIVE / CULTURAL EXPERIENCE. / detail / A Person Looks At A Work Of Art / (forward slash) / someone looks at something... / LOGOS (underlined) / (forward slash) HA HA / LOGOS / (forward slash) HA HA (LOGOS / (forward slash) HA HA written vertically) / (...illeg.) ILLE ISTITURE OF / (...illeg.) D & PROGRESSIVE / ...(illeg.) RAL EXPERIENCE.
Accession Number
1995.7
Departments
Australian Prints / Australian Prints & Drawings
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