Container Narratives: Literary and Visual
Teaching Gallery
A Teaching Gallery exhibition co-organized by Emma Kafalenos, senior lecturer in comparative literature, and Catharina Manchanda, curator at the Kemper Art Museum, Container Narratives is presented conjunction with a new comparative literature course taught in spring 2007. This exhibition examines visual artworks that contain, embed, or quote other artworks. Both the course and the exhibition address the ways that contained artwork -- a painting within a painting, a story within a novel, or a painting within a novel -- reinforce or alter the message that the containing artwork communicates. Works on display will include photographs, prints, collages, and objects by artists such as Eleanor Antin, M.C. Escher, Robert Motherwell, and Robert Rauschenberg.
Selected works

Max Beckmann
Magic Mirror, from the portfolio Day and Dream
1946
Maurits Cornelis Escher
Relativity
1953
Tom Phillips
A Humument Volume
1970
Robert Motherwell
9th Street Collage
1951
Robert Motherwell
London Series II
1970
Robert Motherwell
London Series II
1970
Robert Rauschenberg
Guardian
1968
Robert Rauschenberg
Composition
1970
Robert Rauschenberg
Cardbird III, from the series Cardbirds
1971
Robert Rauschenberg
Cardbird VI, from the series Cardbirds
1971
Robert Rauschenberg
Ally, from the series Bones and Unions
1975
Kasper Konig
My Country 'Tis of Thee: West Germany, 1968 (Four Views), from S.M.S. No. 1
1968
Niccoló della Casa
Portrait of Cosimo de Medici
1544
Kasper Konig
My Country 'Tis of Thee: West Germany, 1968 (Four Views), from S.M.S. No. 1
1968
Kasper Konig
My Country 'Tis of Thee: West Germany, 1968 (Four Views), from S.M.S. No. 1
1968
Kasper Konig
My Country 'Tis of Thee: West Germany, 1968 (Four Views), from S.M.S. No. 1
1968
Aura Rosenberg
Krumme Strasse 19
1997Teaching Gallery
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