Dennis Oppenheim

Rocked Circle - Fear
1971

A composite image with two sections: the top half shows a grainy, cyanotype photograph of a person standing within a drawn circle on the ground, looking downward. The bottom half is a blurry, purple-tinted image that appears to be a close-up of a face. Between the two images is a strip of text describing an art piece titled "ROCKED CIRCLE—FEAR, 1971," which explains the context of the images as part of a performance where the artist stood in a circle while rocks were thrown at them, and the camera focused on their face to capture their expressions of fear.

A composite image with two sections: the top half shows a grainy, cyanotype photograph of a person standing within a drawn circle on the ground, looking downward. The bottom half is a blurry, purple-tinted image that appears to be a close-up of a face. Between the two images is a strip of text describing an art piece titled "ROCKED CIRCLE—FEAR, 1971," which explains the context of the images as part of a performance where the artist stood in a circle while rocks were thrown at them, and the camera focused on their face to capture their expressions of fear.

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Date
1971

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Chromogenic prints, gelatin silver prints and collage mounted on paperboard

Dimensions
Sheet: 61 1/8 × 41 1/4in. (155.3 × 104.8 cm) Frame: 61 1/8 × 41 × 2in. (155.3 × 104.1 × 5.1 cm)

Accession number
93.145

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the artist

Rights and reproductions
Courtesy of the artist

API
artworks/8709

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