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Artist (United States, 1909 - 1993)
Publisher (United States, established 1979)
Date1989
MediumLithograph and colored pencil on paper
DimensionsIMAGE/SHEET: 29 7/8 x 22 1/4 in.
IMAGE/SHEET: 759 x 565 mm
Object TypePrints
Credit LineKSU, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, acquisition made possible with funds provided by the Friends of Art
Edition25/83
Object number1990.2
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Description
This old woman is bound and gagged and can no longer draw. Her principles have been X-ed out. I guarantee you she feels like a zilch. In the background, from top left, counter-clockwise: Interstate 70 billboard art by Tillie Woodward, of a Nazi soldier hanging two Russian resistance fighters, which was censored and plastered over June 5, 1985; the Goddess of Liberty falling broken in China’s Tiananmen Square; a pile of the old woman’s drawings torn up and censored; quotation, “The first exception (to the First Amendment) will not be the last”—Ira Glasser, sheaf of CLASSIFIED papers, beginning and ending with LIED. (1995)
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