0000-1007-0-PC

Accession number

0000-1007-0-PC

Title

TH ตำรวจไล่จับแม่ค้า. (tamruat lai chap maekha)

EN Police chasing sellers.

Description

Through the repetition of the words "run" (วิ่ง), "police" (ตำรวจ), and "seller" (แม่ค้า), the poem, which is inscribed in red, portrays the frenzy of police officers running after illegal street peddlers to arrest them.

Categories

Concrete poetry (บทกวีรูปธรรม)

Colour

Inscriptions

Titled "ตำรวจไล่จับแม่ค้า." at the top right corner of the work.

Year

Unknown

Date

Unknown

Dimensions

24.8 x 16.9

Dimensions with frame

N/A

Condition

Foxing. Torn out of a lined notebook along the left edge. In good condition.

Medium

Ballpoint pen on paper

Current location

Collection of The Tang Chang Private Museum

Bibliography of printed matter

Orianna Cacchione, “Tang Chang: Abstracting the Line, Retrieving the Image,” in Tang Chang: The Painting that is Painted with Poetry is Profoundly Beautiful, (Chicago: Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago, 2018), 6.

All known reproductions.

Tang Chang, Thassana sinlapa – thassana kawi [Thinking on Arts, Thinking on Poetry] (Nakhon Pathom: Tang Chang’s Descendants Publishing, 2020), 333.
จ่าง แซ่ตั้ง, ทัศนะศิลปะ – ทัศนะกวี, (นครปฐม: สำนักพิมพ์ ลูก-หลาน จ่าง แซ่ตั้ง, 2563), 333.
[Caption: ตำรวจไล่จับแม่ค้า. 1969 CA. Red bull point pen on notebook paper. 24.8x17 cm]

Orianna Cacchione, “Tang Chang: Abstracting the Line, Retrieving the Image,” in Tang Chang: The Painting that is Painted with Poetry is Profoundly Beautiful, (Chicago: Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago, 2018), 7.

Exhibition history.

Tang Chang: The Painting that is Painted with Poetry is Profoundly Beautiful. Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago, Chicago, USA. May 8–August 5, 2018.

Annotations for selected works.

Lined paper.