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None More Black

Printer Katherine B. Michel American
2014
Not on view
In this work, Haven, known for her engagement with both abstraction and cinema, examines the possibilities within a severely restricted palette and material. By simultaneously evoking Kazimir Malevich’s revolutionary 1915 painting Black Square and quoting the 1985 film This Is Spinal Tap, she mocks the rhetoric around nonrepresentational art and the monochrome. In the film, a band member discovers that their album design was changed to be entirely black and responds positively that at least "there is none more black."

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: None More Black
  • Artist: Victoria Haven (American, born Seattle, 1964)
  • Printer: Katherine B. Michel (American, born 1971)
  • Publisher: Planthouse Gallery
  • Date: 2014
  • Medium: Artist's book
  • Dimensions: 5 1/2 × 4 7/8 × 5/16 in. (14 × 12.4 × 0.8 cm)
  • Classification: Books
  • Credit Line: Gift of Katherine B. Michel, Planthouse, 2015
  • Object Number: 2015.715.1
  • Rights and Reproduction: © 2014 VICTORIA HAVEN ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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