Dorothy Iannone
The White Goddess #36/50
1971

About the Item

Dorothy Iannone The White Goddess Silkscreen on heavy paper Number 36 from an edition of 50 Edited by Dieter Roth in Düsseldorf this silkscreen is of a very high quality. Seven colors were applied on a cardboard of about 350gr. A large format, for which Dorothy is inspired by Robert Graves' book The White Goddess, published in 1948. It is one of the most desirable multiples of Dorothy lannone. Dorothy Iannone (August 9, 1933 – December 26, 2022) was an American Artist. Her autobiographical texts, films, and paintings explicitly depict female sexuality and "ecstatic unity." She lived and worked in Berlin. The majority of Iannone's paintings, texts, and visual narratives depict themes of erotic love. Her explicit renderings of the human body draw heavily from the artist's travels and from Japanese woodcuts, Greek vases, and visual motifs from Eastern religions, including Tibetan Buddhism, Indian Tantrism, and Christian ecstatic traditions like those of the seventeenth-century Baroque. For the High Line in New-York, Iannone creates a new, large-scale mural installation at 22nd St. Iannone’s mural features three colorful Statues of Liberty. Between them runs the words, “I Lift My Lamp Beside the Golden Door,” which is the final line from Emma Lazarus’s poem “The New Colossus,” the ode to the freedom promised by immigration to America engraved on a bronze plaque mounted inside the statue at Liberty Island. Iannone’s piece was conceived before the recent months of upheaval in the United States around immigration, an already contested topic; these debates have raised the Statue of Liberty anew as a symbol of the openness of New York City and the United States to those seeking asylum, freedom, or simply a better life. Iannone’s vibrant Liberties bring a bit of joy to an often exhausting and demoralizing political debate.

Creator:

Dorothy Iannone (1933 - 2022, American)

Creation Year:

1971

Dimensions:

Height: 28.75 in (73 cm)Width: 40.16 in (102 cm)

More Editions & Sizes:

73 x 102 cm, Edition of 50Price: $3,273

Medium:

Screen

Movement & Style:

Feminist