Untitled. From the suite 'Ten Works by Ten Painters'
Print
1964 (published)
1964 (published)
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Warhol took his imagery from popular media: magazines, tv, cinema, advertising, packaging and so on. His choice sometimes appeared shocking, as in his Electric chair or car crash images, but his apparently deadpan treatment of them often implies a radical critique of social mores. Here, the bravery of the Civil Rights Activists of the early 1960s is immortalised through Warhol's simple re-iteration of some of the most harrowing press photographs of police 'intervention'. [Another impression of this print is Circ.127-1969]
Object details
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| Title | Untitled. From the suite 'Ten Works by Ten Painters' |
| Materials and techniques | Screenprint on paper |
| Brief description | Warhol, Andy. Birmingham Race Riot, from the suite 'Ten Works by Ten Painters', screenprint published by the Wadsworth Atheneum, 1964 |
| Physical description | Modified back and white photographic image of police with dogs, and young black people. From press photographs of the Civil Rights Race Riots in Birmingham Alabama, 1964 |
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| Production type | Limited edition |
| Copy number | 67/500 |
| Marks and inscriptions | (Not signed or dated. Blind stamped with the printer's chop mark) |
| Credit line | Acquired from Peter Tunnard in 1969. |
| Production | Sirocco were the printers, under supervision of Ives-Sillman |
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| Summary | Warhol took his imagery from popular media: magazines, tv, cinema, advertising, packaging and so on. His choice sometimes appeared shocking, as in his Electric chair or car crash images, but his apparently deadpan treatment of them often implies a radical critique of social mores. Here, the bravery of the Civil Rights Activists of the early 1960s is immortalised through Warhol's simple re-iteration of some of the most harrowing press photographs of police 'intervention'. [Another impression of this print is Circ.127-1969] |
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| Accession number | CIRC.534-1969 |
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| Record created | March 7, 2008 |
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