Norton Simon Museum
411 W Colorado Blvd
626.449.6840
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Slice of Cream Pie with Cherry (or ‘Piece of Boston Cream Pie’), 1964, Woodcut, Artist's Proof. Courtesy of the Norton Simon Museum.
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June 26, 2009 – Oct 5, 2009
Mondays (noon–6pm)
Wednesdays–Thursdays (noon–6pm)
Fridays (noon–9pm)
Saturdays–Sundays (noon–6pm)
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$8
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In the 1960s, soon-to-be Pop icon Wayne Thiebaud created a series of monochromatic, two-dimensional prints of nine pieces of pie, sufficiently drained of detail and context to foster appreciation on a conceptual rather than a formal level. For Thiebaud, at that time, this meant exploring the individual and group characteristics of readily reproducible multiples such as etchings, lithographs, woodcuts, and other kinds of prints, rather than the aesthetic pleasure and metaphoric stand-in for art signified in the depicted confections. As a response to Walter Benjamin's seminal 1936 essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," Thiebaud posits that each copy can, in fact, claim its individual aura of originality, even though they all may at first appear identical.
