From Baudelaire: Les Fleurs du Mal (for A.B) by John Goto

Accession Code: wu0729 Title: From Baudelaire: Les Fleurs du Mal (for A.B) Date completed: 1994 Medium: Photograph Material: Photograph, silver gelatin Height (mm): 635 Width (mm): 760 Depth (mm): n/a Inscription: Inscribed:Goto 88/9,bottom right Location Name: University House Location Description: Learning Grid Location Floor: 1

The three prints in the University collection are part of a series of twenty which refer to the poem Les Fleurs Du Mal by Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867). When the poem was published in 1857 it caused an uproar in France and led to a celebrated obscenity trial.

Goto produces larger than life size images in order to both emphasise the text and explore the rich textures of the paper and background.