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Frederick Sommer
Untitled
Paper collage on board
15 x 17.5 inches
1991
© 1999 The Frederick and Frances Sommer Foundation
Courtesy of the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
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Frederick Sommer
Untitled
Paper collage on board
15 x 17.5 inches
1991
© 1999 The Frederick and Frances Sommer Foundation
Courtesy of the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
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Frederick Sommer
Frederick Sommer is best known for his work with photography, although his lifetime of exploration led him to many different outlets for his ideas concerning architecture, drawing, science, music, and the history and continuum of art. Visionary Anatomies includes two of his many collages of medical illustrations carefully cut out of Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body and other textbooks. By removing portions of the illustrations from their familiar contexts and reassembling them in painstakingly crafted constructions, Sommer has created new whimsical relationships that challenge the viewer's developed presumptions of the human body. These constructions allude both to traditions in medical illustration and to surrealism. By taking the influence of the artist's hand to an extreme, Sommer’s work reminds us that the same source material can inspire a variety of interpretations, and that in both art and science the most rewarding results often come from radical re-imagining of preconceived notions.
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