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Not Manet's Type
Carrie Mae Weems (American, born in 1953)
Printer and Publisher: Segura Arts Studio, Notre Dame Center for Arts & Culture
Printer and Publisher: Segura Arts Studio, Notre Dame Center for Arts & Culture
2001
Medium/Technique
Offset photolithograph
Dimensions
Framed: 114.8 x 64 x 1.9 cm (45 3/16 x 25 3/16 x 3/4 in.)
Sheet: 101.6 x 50.8 cm (40 x 20 in.)
Sheet: 101.6 x 50.8 cm (40 x 20 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Susan Alyson and Charles M. Young
Accession Number2005.1253
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsContemporary Art, Americas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Each of the prints in photographer Carrie Mae Weems' five-part series Not Manet's Type is comprised of a nude self-portrait with a brief inscription below. Here the text reads, "It was clear, I was not Manet's type. Picasso-who had a way with women-only used me and Duchamp never even considered me." Each of these sardonic statements may be read as both a feminist response to the way male artists have used women's bodies and a commentary on the role of black women in particular in the history of modern art.
InscriptionsPrinted inscription: IT WAS CLEAR, / I WAS NOT MANET'S TYPE/ PICASSO—WHO HAD A WAY/ WITH WOMEN—ONLY USED ME/ & DUCHAMP NEVER EVEN/ CONSIDERED ME; in graphite, l.l.: 30/40; l.r.: Carrie M Weems, 2001
ProvenanceCharles M. Young Fine Prints and Drawings, Portland, CT; their gift to the MFA, 25 January 2006
Copyright© Carrie Mae Weems. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.