Tina Barney

Now That Communism Is Dead My Life Feels Empty. Richard Foreman
2001, printed 2009

A staged photograph featuring two people in a surreal setting. The person on the left is wearing a white shirt, beige pants, and a red sash, with a clear plastic sheet in front of their face, behind which various scribbles are visible. The person on the right is wearing a white shirt and a paper cone hat, with a mask covering their mouth, and is holding a large clipboard with musical notes. The background is chaotic with newspaper clippings and abstract shapes.

A staged photograph featuring two people in a surreal setting. The person on the left is wearing a white shirt, beige pants, and a red sash, with a clear plastic sheet in front of their face, behind which various scribbles are visible. The person on the right is wearing a white shirt and a paper cone hat, with a mask covering their mouth, and is holding a large clipboard with musical notes. The background is chaotic with newspaper clippings and abstract shapes.

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Date
2001, printed 2009

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Chromogenic print

Dimensions
Sheet: 11 × 14in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm) Image: 10 9/16 × 13 3/8in. (26.8 × 34 cm)

Accession number
2011.117.44

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Jeanne and Richard S. Press

Rights and reproductions
©️ Tina Barney

API
artworks/36949

Part of a series:
Players
67 works

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