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        "tombstone": "Bacon's Not the Only Thing That Is Cured by Hanging from a String, 2011. Geoffrey Farmer (Canadian, b. 1967). Printed material, wood, metal, paint, tape, foam, fabric, computer programmed LEDs; part 1: 245.1 x 45.7 x 58.4 cm (96 1/2 x 18 x 23 in.); part 2: 245.1 x 45.7 x 45.7 cm (96 1/2 x 18 x 18 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Sundry Art-Contemporary Fund, 2011.33",
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        "title": "Bacon's Not the Only Thing That Is Cured by Hanging from a String",
        "creation_date": "2011",
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        "measurements": "Part 1: 245.1 x 45.7 x 58.4 cm (96 1/2 x 18 x 23 in.); Part 2: 245.1 x 45.7 x 45.7 cm (96 1/2 x 18 x 18 in.)",
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                    "description": "Main Gallery Rotation (Gallery 229): September 19, 2011 - March 12, 2012.",
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        "description": "Geoffrey Farmer equates sculpture with photography in that the latter has impacted society as an influential visual record of social and cultural events. In this piece, cut-out images from vintage issues of <em>LIFE</em> magazine dangle freely, curing in a darkroom, inviting open-ended metaphors and narratives in the interplay with other found objects. In addition, subtle light effects in this work emphasize another aspect of the medium of sculpture\u2014its inherent theatrical nature. Illuminated lamp posts evoke an urban street corner where people connect and intersect, imagined here in an intimate and magical nocturnal moment. The title also refers to photography, as evidenced in Susan Sontag\u2019s popular book <em>On</em> <em>Photography</em>: to hang something is to make it visible.",
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            {
                "citation": "Mann, C. Griffith, and Amy Bracken Sparks. \"Acquisitions 2011.\" <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 52, no. 2 (March/April 2012): 10-27.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: po. 17",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2012-02/page/16/mode/2up"
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                "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 127",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-14 11:34:14.608000"
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