Travel is essential to Brouwn; many of his works document his walks, tracing their locations and distances. In Steps (9.11.1970), though, instead of walking, Brouwn focuses on public transportation, mapping his routes across Amsterdam on a particular day. Brouwn underscores movement as a foundational part of experience in the modern city, where we may move instantaneously among the roles of pedestrian, navigator, and passenger. Missing are the qualities that fill out that experience: the sights and sounds of the city and our encounters with other people. Through this absence Brouwn contrasts the multiple dimensions of city life with the two-dimensional artwork.

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2019

Medium Felt-tip pen on four maps
Dimensions Each: 32 x 39 3/4" (81.3 x 101 cm)
Credit Art & Project/Depot VBVR Gift
Object number 488.2007.a-d
Department Drawings and Prints

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Artist stanley brouwn played a foundational role in the international emergence of Conceptual art during the 1960s. Based in Amsterdam, brouwn transformed the everyday activity of walking into art, in parallel with contemporaries who also used walking as their artistic medium.

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