Portfolio Cover for the Joy of Ornament
1980
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printed fabric with mounted Xerographic title card
Dimensions
Overall: 29.9 x 16.5 cm (11 3/4 x 6 1/2 in.) overall: 29.9 x 33.7 cm (11 3/4 x 13 1/4 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Kathan Brown
Accession Number
1997.8.124.21
Art Historical Context
**Portfolio Cover for the Joy ofnament** (1980) by Robertner invites visitors into a world of exuberant design. This compact portfolio cover, measuring approximately 11¾ x 6½ inches when folded and expanding to 11¾ x 13¼ inches, serves as the enticing gateway to a collection of prints celebrating decorative arts. Crafted from printed fabric—a tactile medium evoking textiles and crafts—adorned with a mountedographic title card, it analog printing techniques with the era's emerging photocopy technology, highlighting 1980s experimentation at the intersection of fine art and reproduction. Kushner...
About the Artist
Robert Kushner
Robert Kushner, born in 1949 in Pasadena, California, grew up in an artistic household profoundly shaped by his mother, Dorothy Browdy Kushner, a California Modernist painter whose studio filled with abstractions, printmaking, taxidermy, and succulents sparked his early creativity. He studied at the University of California, San Diego, where his senior exhibition in 1971 featured the performance *...