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William E. Jones

William E. Jones

出版	White Cube, 2012
主題	Art / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General
ISBN	19060727369781906072735
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=y6YcNQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

For this exhibition, Jones has been a scripophilist, appropriating nineteenth and twentieth century stock certificates that traditionally symbolise monetary value through the pictorialisation of idealised manhood and physical strength. Inspired by the recent crash of the Euro and the US recession, Jones examined numerous company share certificates that had illustrated headers, such as those of the Harlem and New York Railroad or the Inland Steel Company, Pittsburgh. These certificates depict allegorical figures such as an Adonis-like man wearing a crown of leaves or a heroic manual labourer wielding an axe or sledgehammer, which