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Krannert Art Museum: Hal Fischer Photographs: Seriality, Sexuality, Semiotics: Seriality

Hal Fischer, Street Fashion: Uniform, from Gay Semiotics, 1977. Pigment inkjet on porous, resin-coated paper. Museum purchase through the Robert and Sonia Carringer Art Acquisitions Fund. 

Serial Art: A term coined in the 1960s which is applicable to two types of avant-garde art, especially in the United States. The first meaning implies a kind of Minimal art in which certain simple, basic, and widely available elements, such as bricks, are assembled in regular and easily comprehended patterns. Carl Andre is a well-known exponent of this type of art. The second is applied to works of art which are conceived in a series or as part of a larger group.

(from The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms)

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