[GRAPHICS] SHAHN, Ben

I Can Tell You One Thing [He Says No To Civilization and Survival]

[Roosevelt, NJ: 1964]. Original photo silkscreen in two colors, 28" x 22" (sheet). Printed on heavy machine-made white wove stock; signed in ink, lower right; numbered lower left; this is copy 165 of an edition of 500. A fine, unsoiled and unworn copy. PRESCOTT 184.

A political poster lampooning Senator Barry Goldwater, the U.S. Republican Presidential candidate in 1964. A caricature of Goldwater as a babe in diapers is surrounded by written excerpts from his speeches, all of which have been chosen by Shahn to reveal Goldwater's reactionary attitudes towards the Vietnam conflict, social welfare, education, and religion. The text is punctuated with a repeating motif of Goldwater's signature black-rimmed spectacles. As Shahn's cataloguer Kenneth W. Prescott writes, "The unmistakable caricature...is a bitter expression of Shahn's contempt for the man."

Price: $450.00

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