Punch Invited to a Stag Party
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Punch Invited to a Stag Party

Robert Taplin

For Taplin, an intriguing aspect of Punch is that he is a figure somewhere between naturalism and puppetry providing an incongruous addition to any real-world situation, and giving Taplin a, "natural opening to the world of social satire." As the object of both derision and a queasy fascination he is, of course, attracted to the grotesque and the absurd.
Artist
Robert Taplin
Date of Birth
(b. 1950)
Date
2012
Medium
Cast resin
Dimensions
11 x 12 x 10 in. (27.94 x 30.48 x 25.4 cm.)
Accession #
2015.32.3
Credit Line
Museum Purchase
Copyright
© artist or artist’s estate
Category
Sculpture
Subject
Figurative

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