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20 Cards in this Set
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The State Hospital Edward Kienholz |
Installation, mixed media, to protest against society's treatment of people it deems incompetent, the artist made this installation, which exposes the neglect and filth he found in a state mental hospital |
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Elegy to the Spanish Republic XXXIV Robert Motherwell |
Painting, oil paint on canvas, this work was part of a series that contain 150 paintings in which artist Express his mourning over the loss of Liberty in Spain after the fascist forces were victorious during the country's Civil War |
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The Ambassadors Hans Holbein The Younger |
Painting, oil paint on oak, a French nobleman serving as ambassador to London and his friend Bishop example of why the humanistic influence in active contemplative |
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Light Sentence Mona Hatoum |
Installation, mixed media, this artist's work deals poetically with personal identity, the body, surveillance, and control. The Swinging light alludes to instability that those without power endure. |
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Codex Borbonicus |
Painting, paint on vellum, this religious calendar was made close to the time the Spanish conquest of Mexico. Its preservation affirms the history and culture of the Aztec people |
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Senji Yamaguchi of urakami Shomei Tomatsu |
Photography, Silver gelatin print, this powerful disturbing photograph is one of a series that exposes the mutilation of victims who survived the atomic bombing in Nagasaki, Japan, at the end of World War II |
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Liberty Leading the people Eugene Delacroix |
Painting, oil paint on canvas, this is an homage to the 1830 Paris Revolt in France in which the artist personifies Liberty's fight against oppression of the people |
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The Outbreak Katherine Kollwitz |
Printmaking etching, n/a, this work, which depicts an uprising in the 16th century peasant war in Germany, is one of seven prints at by the artist to show the destructive energy of War |
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The passion of sacco and vanzetti Ben Shahn |
Painting, tempera paint on canvas, this painting tells the story of the unjust conviction and execution of Italian immigrants who were active and labor organizations, avoided the draft in World War 1, and Were political anarchist |
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Fit For Active Duty George Grosz |
Drawing, pen and ink, in this drawing the artist exposes well-fed doctors and self-absorbed officers who were sending elderly, sick, and very young men to the front lines to fight for Germany near the end of World War 1 |
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No.36 Jacob Lawrence |
Painting, tempera paint on canvas, this work is one of 41 paintings about a slave who led a Revolt to abolish slavery in Haiti |
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Portrait of George Robert Arneson |
Sculpture, glazed ceramic, this piece is a memorial to San Francisco spear, who was assassinated in 1978 by a disgruntled City supervisor who disagreed with most of his political points including homosexuality |
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Leo, 48 inches Lewis Hine |
Photography, n/a, this artist was known for exposing child labor in mines and textile mills, where children were working at the most tedious, most dangerous, lowest paying jobs, as seen in this photo |
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Mr. And Mrs. Andrews without their heads Yinka Shonibare |
N/a, n/a, historical quotation, clothing, and humor are you here to protest the colonial past and to show the complexity of World Trade and culture. |
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Insertions into ideological circuits: Coca-Cola Project Cildo Meireles |
N/a, screen print on Coca-Cola bottles, this work was created as a response to Brazil's military government in 1970, which supported Itself by selling the country to foreign investors, including the United States |
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Breakfast Scene William Hogarth |
Painting, oil paint on canvas, in a series of comedic paintings this artist that satirized the English upper class in the 18th century |
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Sun Mad Ester Hernandez |
Printmaking, color serigraph, this work exposes the dangerous chemicals pesticides that are used in Vines to grow grapes that eventually become raisins. These poisons leach into public drinking water |
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The Executions of May 3, 1808 Francisco Goya |
Painting, oil paint on canvas, painted from sketches the artist made at the actual event, this work was a pivotal protest against Napoleon's occupational Army in 1808 Madrid |
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The legislative Belly Honore Daumier |
Printmaking, lithograph, Daumier was practically known for his political cartoons with his pointedly satirical caricatures in 19th century France |
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Backs Magdalena Abakanowicz |
N/a, burlap and glue, this installation suggests the modern malaise of uniformity in the loss of self and individuality |
