I Hope You Learned Your Lesson / William T. Wiley
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1992/1.122
- Title
- I Hope You Learned Your Lesson
- Artist
- William T. Wiley
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- Born 1937
- Object Creation Date
- 1974
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Credit Line
- Museum Purchase
- Dimensions
- 71.8 cm x 56.5 cm (28 1/4 in. x 22 1/4 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Physical Description
- Print made to resemble a wood framed chalk board; dated lower left 1974; at lower right, artist's insignia a capital W within a circle.
- Subject Matter
- Wiley's use of text here confronts the viewer with an age-old aphorism "I hope you learned your lesson," while infusing the work with a sense of irony and humor by creating the illusion of erasure and rewrites giving an instability to what reads as incontrovertible text. Adding an element of self-reference to the work, Wiley leaves the ghost of his birth year, 1937, visible as an erasure at the bottom left of the print.
- Secondary Keywords
- international post-1945 styles and movements
- modern and contemporary art
- objects
- people and culture
- post-1945 fine arts styles and movements
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- text-based art
- visual and tactile
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 935 x 1183
- File Size
- 73 KB
- Record
- 1992/1.122
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1992-sl-1.122/1992_1.122.jpg
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"I Hope You Learned Your Lesson; William T. Wiley." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1992-sl-1.122/1992_1.122.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 16, 2024.