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...print, as Cohn claims on her welcome mural, is a language all of its own—“with its own vocabulary, grammar, and syntax??poetry and prose”—we see that the reproduction of a work of art by any printed mechanism is in fact a translation, and therefore imperfect: a variation. In translation, the Ingres loses its chubbiness and cheerfulness but attains a sort of depth in its new black and white form that prefigures the transformation of depth of representation that would take place with the tension of photography?...

Author: By Ross N. Halbert, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Poetry at a Standstill in Prints Exhibit at the Fogg | 10/15/2004 | See Source »

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