Aimai-no-bi (Ambiguous Beauty)
Yasumasa Morimura, Japanese, born 1951
1995
Printed fan in Paulownia wood box
5000
Overall: 11 1/2 × 1 9/16 × 1 in. (29.2 × 4 × 2.6 cm)
Case: 12 13/16 × 12 13/16 × 1 3/8 in. (32.5 × 32.5 × 3.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Trevor Fairbrother and John T. Kirk
Aimai-no-bi (Ambiguous Beauty) © 1995 Yasumasa Morimura. All rights reserved.
2010.88.23
Geography
Place Made: Japan, East Asia, Asia
Period
20th century
Object Name
Mixed Media
Research Area
Mixed Media
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in ink or printed, top of box, slightly off center: [not English]; on reverse: signed, within the matrix; Morimura
Course History
WGSS 10.01, Sex, Gender, and Society, Douglas Moody, Fall 2019
WGSS 10.02, Sex, Gender, and Society, Kristen O'Rourke, Fall 2019
WGSS 10.03, Sex, Gender, and Society, Jenn Sargent, Fall 2019
WGSS 10.04, Sex, Gender, and Society, Susan Brison, Fall 2019
Exhibition History
"Collecting and Sharing: Trevor Fairbrother, John T. Kirk, and the Hood Museum of Art", Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 22-December 6, 2015.
Embodied: Artist as Medium, Isadora Italia, MALS Class of 2022, Sol LeWitt Wall, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 1–December 17, 2022.
Publication History
Collecting and Sharing: Trevor Fairbrother, John T. Kirk, and the Hood Museum of Art, with contributions by Katherine Hart, Michael R. Taylor, John O'Reilly and James Tellin, Trevor Fairbrother and John T. Kirk, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2015, p.100-101, no. 58.
Published References
Guy Trebay, "Is that for Me?" Village Voice, December 19, 1995, p. 20.
Provenance
Peter Norton Family Christmas Project; given to Trevor J. Fairbrother, Christmas 1995; collection of John T. Kirk and Trevor J. Fairbrother, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, 1995; given to present collection, 2010.
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