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Photo Credit: photo: M. Cook

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Les Aventures des Cannibales Modernistes

1999
20th century
192 x 195 mm (7.6 x 7.7 in.)

Enrique Chagoya, American, b. born 1953

Object Type: print

Medium and Support: Lithograph and woodcut on four folded sheets of handmade (probably Mexican) paper (papel de amate), joined by three pasted hinges to make an eight-panel accordion book

Print impression quality: Excellent

Edition: Number 26 from edition of 30 published by Shark’s Inc. (Lyons, Colorado)

Marks: Signed in pencil on leftmost panel, lower left: “26/30 Enrique Chagoya ’99”; title inscribed on stone in red ink on rightmost panel, upper right: “Les Aventures des Cannibales Modernistes”; other inscriptions on stone, including facsimile of “GOUPIL” stamp

Marks: Watermark: No watermark

Credit Line: Friends of the Davison Art Center funds, 2000

Accession Number: 2000.5.2

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appropriation*, comic book imagery, mass media*, race (concept)*, representation*

appropriation - In Postmodern art, the practice of borrowing pre-existing forms or images in order to bring into question issues of originality in art. [February 1992 lead-in term added. May 1990 descriptor added.]
comic book imagery
mass media - Means of communication designed to reach large numbers of people and tending to set popular standards, ideas, and aims. W [March 1994 related terms added.]
race (concept) - Identification of a group of people as distinct from other groups on the basis of physical or socially defined characteristics, such as language. [May 1995 descriptor added.]
representation - Usage as critical/analytical term

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sheet Dimensions: 192 x 195 mm (7.6 x 7.7 in.)

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Enrique Chagoya, American, b. born 1953 . Les Aventures des Cannibales Modernistes, 1999. Lithograph and woodcut on four folded sheets of handmade (probably Mexican) paper (papel de amate), joined by three pasted hinges to make an eight-panel accordion book. sheet : 192 x 195 mm (7.6 x 7.7 in.). Object : 192 x 2335 mm (7.6 x 91.9 in.). DAC accession number 2000.5.2. Friends of the Davison Art Center funds, 2000. (photo: M. Cook) .

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