“The Great Seal (After El Lissitsky)” [Screen Print]

$400.00

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An inconvenient montage of imperial symbols. The decapitated double-headed eagle—a repudiation of czarist rule—is from El Lissitsky’s 1923 design of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s book of poetry “Dlia golosa” (“For the Voice”). The other eagle is from the American one dollar bill. The fact that our democracy represents itself with the same symbolism as royalists and fascists should give every American pause.

COLLECTIONS

• Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG), Los Angeles
• Deutsche Plakat Museum, Museum Folkwang, Essen
• Letterform Archive, San Francisco
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
• Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)

EXHIBITIONS

• “BlackDogma: Selections from the Work of Mark Fox in the Permanent Collection of Architecture + Design” (1999)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

• “24 Reasons to Leave L.A.” (1998)
Doyle/Logan Gallery, Los Angeles

PUBLICATIONS

• “Symbols: A Handbook for Seeing” by Mark Fox and Angie Wang, published by Monacelli Press (2016)

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EDITION: 45 signed and numbered; 1 artist’s proof

DIMENSIONS: 20 x 25.5 inches
MEDIA: Screen printed in black and warm red enamel inks on Simpson Starwhite Vicksburg

PRINTING: Kevin Giffen / Wranch Studios / Glendale
DESIGN: © 1998 Mark Fox / BlackDog / San Anselmo

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Domestic shipping (USA only) is free via USPS or UPS Ground. Please allow 2–3 weeks for delivery. For international shipping, please inquire.

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