+ Currency Part 1 - University of Alabama at Birmingham
+ Currency Part 1 - University of Alabama at Birmingham
+ Currency Part 1 - University of Alabama at Birmingham
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The Simplicity <strong>of</strong> Multiplicity<br />
by Brett M. Levine<br />
Printmaking’s complexity, as well as its simplicity, lies is its multiplicity. The<br />
capacity for seriality and repetition places printmaking in a class <strong>of</strong> artistic<br />
practices th<strong>at</strong> sits uneasily within the fine arts precisely because <strong>of</strong> this capacity.<br />
The idea <strong>of</strong> repetition being an an<strong>at</strong>hema to fine arts is as common a st<strong>at</strong>ement as<br />
is Walter Benjamin’s observ<strong>at</strong>ions on the aura, authenticity and originality.<br />
I begin here because the two exhibitions th<strong>at</strong> form the season <strong>of</strong> <strong>Currency</strong> are<br />
framed not by this idea, but instead by a framework th<strong>at</strong> is both far simpler, and<br />
perhaps more complex <strong>at</strong> the same time.
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