Steps, Ladders, Stairs in Art. Volume 1

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Exhibitions

Musée Imaginaire

A Note to the Reader

Stairs in Contemporary Art: Form, Function, Context

Ascent to the Archetype

Ritual Ladder Cakes

Steps at the Natzweiler-Struthof Concentration Camp

Early Images Of Ladders

Jacob's Ladder

The Ladder of Spiritual Ascent

The Ladder At Golgotha

Ladders Leading to Execution

Ladders Made with Swords and Knives

Ladders with Text

Waist-up Figures with Ladders

Ladders Connected to Faces

People on Ladders

Multiple Ladders with Multiple People

Realistic Depictions of Stairs

People Going Down Stairs

People Walking on Stairs

People on Escalators

Portraits on Stairs

Performers Riding Down Stairs

Stairs in Ballet and the Circus

Ladders Being Carried

Ladders and Stairs Made of Hair

Ladders with Fruits

Phallic Ladders

Human Ladders

Human Ladders (Grotesque)

Ladders with Human Body Parts

Ladders with Monsters (Metamorphoses)

Ladders to Another Space

Ladders Leading to Circles

Ladders to Nowhere

Ladders Leading to Windows

Ladders and Clothes

Ladders and Shoes

Chair-Ladders

Ladders and Chairs

Table-Ladders

Ladders and Boats

Small Ladders

Tree-Ladders

Ladders on Trees

Ladders and Spheres

Encumbered Ladders and Stairs

Ladders with Fabric

Ladders with Various Objects

Ladder Metamorphoses

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Aurelia Raffo, Ugo La Pietra in The Big Chance, 1972, photograph

2002 – The Reaper: Images of Death in Art

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Artists began to portray movement on stairs in painting at the end of the 19thcentury. Marcel Duchamp’s famous 1912 cubist painting, “Nude Descending a Staircase” (V1, p. 183), which The New York Times christened “Explosion at the Tile Factory”, depicts a woman’s motion down five steps along a spiral staircase through the successive overlapping of individual fragments. The painting was inspired by the new technology of cinema and particularly by Eadweard Muybridge’s famous series of photographs “Woman Descending Stairs”, made in 1887.

Gerhard Richter’s “Ema. Nude on a Staircase” (V1, p. 185), painted in 1966 is a comment on Duchamp’s work. Like Duchamp, Richter based his painting on a photograph. The model was the artist’s wife, descending an ordinary staircase devoid of details that would indicate a particular time. Richter’s almost ghostly image, seemingly woven of dreams and memories, renders Duchamp’s experiment to the limits of traditional portrait painting, a genre much out of favor in the art world of the 1960s. Richter’s painting later served as an inspiration for Bernhard Schlink’s 2014 novel, “The Woman on the Stairs”.

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