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1981

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1993

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Poster, Fiftieth National Bourgeois Art Exhibit

This is a Poster. It is dated 1981 and we acquired it in 1993. Its medium is lithograph on white paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Gift of Steven Heller and Karrie Jacobs.

Its dimensions are

62.6 × 45.6 cm (24 5/8 × 17 15/16 in.)

It is signed

Signed in black printed text, lower right: © 1981 insurgent squeegee

It is inscribed

Printed in black printed text, lower center: Fiftieth National Bourgeois Art Exhibit / From the personal collection of the Fortune 500, a display of high art which perpetuates the / dominance of form over content and reduces artistic creativity to marketable commodities. / August 2-30, 1981 La Jolla Museum of Art

Cite this object as

Poster, Fiftieth National Bourgeois Art Exhibit; USA; lithograph on white paper; 62.6 × 45.6 cm (24 5/8 × 17 15/16 in.); Gift of Steven Heller and Karrie Jacobs; 1993-53-25

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