After Walker Evans: 1–22
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After Walker Evans: 1–22 is a conceptual art series by Sherrie Levine consisting of rephotographed images that critically examine authorship, originality, and appropriation in modern art.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| After Walker Evans: 1–22 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4705555 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: After Walker Evans: 1–22 Context triple: [Sherrie Levine, notableWork, After Walker Evans: 1–22]
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A.
Walker Evans
Walker Evans was a prominent American photographer renowned for his stark, influential images of everyday life during the Great Depression.
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B.
American Photographs
American Photographs is a landmark 1938 photobook by Walker Evans that powerfully documents American life during the Great Depression and helped define modern documentary photography.
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C.
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (photographs by Walker Evans)
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (photographs by Walker Evans) is a landmark collection of documentary images depicting impoverished tenant farmers in the American South during the Great Depression, created to accompany James Agee’s influential text of the same name.
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Eliot Porter photographs
Eliot Porter photographs are a renowned body of color nature and landscape photography celebrated for their pioneering role in fine art color photography and their meticulous, lyrical depictions of the natural world.
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E.
Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club
Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club was a late-1970s new wave band led by songwriter Bruce Woolley, best known for its role in creating and first recording the song "Video Killed the Radio Star."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: After Walker Evans: 1–22 Target entity description: After Walker Evans: 1–22 is a conceptual art series by Sherrie Levine consisting of rephotographed images that critically examine authorship, originality, and appropriation in modern art.
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A.
Walker Evans
Walker Evans was a prominent American photographer renowned for his stark, influential images of everyday life during the Great Depression.
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B.
American Photographs
American Photographs is a landmark 1938 photobook by Walker Evans that powerfully documents American life during the Great Depression and helped define modern documentary photography.
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C.
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (photographs by Walker Evans)
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (photographs by Walker Evans) is a landmark collection of documentary images depicting impoverished tenant farmers in the American South during the Great Depression, created to accompany James Agee’s influential text of the same name.
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D.
Eliot Porter photographs
Eliot Porter photographs are a renowned body of color nature and landscape photography celebrated for their pioneering role in fine art color photography and their meticulous, lyrical depictions of the natural world.
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E.
Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club
Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club was a late-1970s new wave band led by songwriter Bruce Woolley, best known for its role in creating and first recording the song "Video Killed the Radio Star."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
appropriation art work
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conceptual art series ⓘ |
| artForm | photographic series ⓘ |
| artisticApproach | direct photographic copying of existing images ⓘ |
| basedOn | photographs by Walker Evans ⓘ |
| conceptualFocus |
challenging traditional notions of artistic authorship
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interrogating the value of reproduction in art markets ⓘ questioning the status of the original artwork ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creator | Sherrie Levine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | conceptual art ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Walker Evans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | English ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
appropriation
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artistic originality in modern art ⓘ authorship ⓘ originality ⓘ reproduction in art ⓘ |
| medium | photography ⓘ |
| movement |
Appropriation art
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Postmodern art NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
critical examination of appropriation in modern art
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critical examination of authorship in art ⓘ critical examination of originality in art ⓘ |
| numberOfWorks | 22 ⓘ |
| partOf | Sherrie Levine’s photographic appropriation works ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | Walker Evans photographs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| technique | rephotography ⓘ |
| title | After Walker Evans: 1–22 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: After Walker Evans: 1–22 Description of subject: After Walker Evans: 1–22 is a conceptual art series by Sherrie Levine consisting of rephotographed images that critically examine authorship, originality, and appropriation in modern art.
Referenced by (1)
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