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American,
b. 1946
Impersonations (1-15)
1970
Gelatin silver prints
18.25 x 14.25 x 0.75 in.
Gift of the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation
2001.6.1-15
Impersonations is a suite of fifteen black-and-white photographs of the artist doing his “impressions” of various works of contemporary art. It happened like this: Grieger began hanging out at his girlfriend’s parents’ house (the Norman Lears) with Hollywood funnymen like Sid Caesar, Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks, and Tony Bill. Over dinner, all these men would do “impressions” of Sinatra, of Cagney, of each other. They would spin jokes, making one out of the other, and this process, in Grieger’s view, was no less rigorous and intellectual than the discourse at Cal State Northridge (the art school he was attending at the time), only faster and much funnier. So he decided to apply the standards and bravura and ruthless economy he had learned at the Lears’ to the creation of high art.
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