Souvenir

Jasper Johns, artist

born 1930

Universal Limited Art Editions, publisher

founded 1957

Souvenir, 1970

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: color lithograph

Dimensions:
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 782 x 572 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 30 13/16 x 22 1/2 in
Frame Dimensions (Height x Width x Depth): 34 1/4 x 26 1/4 x 1 1/4 in
Weight (Weight): 10 lbs

Credit line: Museum purchase

Accession number: 1973.0104

Not on display

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Exhibition Label:
"Conflicting Memories," Oct-2003, Steve Goddard
Souvenir ("memory" or "to remember" in French) includes open-ended clues to the act of remembering: a souvenir plate with the artist’s self-portrait and the primary colors, a number, a flashlight with a mirror, and the back of a canvas. Some specialists in the study of memory and cognitive science have recently proposed that there are genetic factors to our sense of cultural memory - our ability to form a sense of belonging to a group with specific cultural characteristics. Johns’ art often seems to involve intuitions about which aspects of memory are learned and which are not.