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2010

  • Work on this object began.

2015

  • We acquired this object.

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2024

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Poster, Points of a Line, a Film by Sarah Morris

This is a Poster. It was designed by M/M (Paris), Michael Amzalag and Mathias Augustyniak and made for (as the client) Parallax Film Productions. It is dated 2010 and we acquired it in 2015. Its medium is screenprint on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

Points on a Line (2011) is an experimental film by Sarah Morris that documents the daily maintenance of two architectural masterworks: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House and Philip Johnson’s Glass House. In the poster, drawings of objects and architectural elements merge with lettering to frame the photograph behind them.

It is credited Gift of M/M (Paris).

Its dimensions are

176 × 120 cm (5 ft. 9 5/16 in. × 47 1/4 in.)

Cite this object as

Poster, Points of a Line, a Film by Sarah Morris; Designed by M/M (Paris), Michael Amzalag, Mathias Augustyniak (French, b.1967); Client: Parallax Film Productions; screenprint on paper; 176 × 120 cm (5 ft. 9 5/16 in. × 47 1/4 in.); Gift of M/M (Paris); 2015-4-5

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition How Posters Work.

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