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Another Look at my Beef with the Government

Another Look at my Beef with the Government

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Object Name: 
Panel
Title: 
Another Look at my Beef with the Government
Series: 
Picture Window
Department
Modern
Place Made: 
United States, Oakland, CA
Date: 
1976
Color
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colorless
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green
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amber
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white
Technique
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cutting
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sandblasting
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assembling
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laminating
Material
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lead glass
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glass
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cames
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photographs
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laminate
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 69 cm, W: 82 cm
Accession Number: 
88.4.12
Location: 
Not on Display
Description
Textured colorless, transparent shades of green, amber, opaque and translucent white, opaque pink lead and non-lead various types of flat glasses, lead, copper foil, Kodalith film; cut, sandblasted, assembled with copper foil and lead, photographic lamination. Horizontal panel with complex imagery, materials and textures; design includes at top edge self-portrait transparency of artist looking through upper window into a room with three leaded cows with enamel detailing (hunters, farm machinery) facing left towards figure (head is cropped out) laying in traction on a bed whose covers are patterned with maps of the United States and the "little Dutch girl" logo, in foreground is a table topped with a mounted open book of mirror depicting a figure (with head facing into a bucket) bathing outdoors; unsigned.
Label Text
In this panel, Posner’s photographic image peers through a window at an image of a person lying in traction on a bed, who also represents the artist. This work documents Posner’s experience in alternative service during the Vietnam War: a conscientious objector, he sustained a back injury while working as a dishwasher in a civilian hospital. The materials used in this panel include handmade Vietnamese glass.
Provenance
Posner, Richard ((American, 1948-2011)), Source to 1987-12-30
The Eloquent Object
Venue(s)
Philbrook Museum of Art 1987-09-20 through 1988-01-03
Orlando Museum of Art at Loch Haven 1989-03-19 through 1989-05-14
Museum of Fine Arts, Virginia 1989-06-27 through 1989-08-20
Museum of Modern Art 1989-10-31 through 1989-12-17
New Stained Glass
Venue(s)
Museum of Contemporary Crafts of the American Crafts Council
Renwick Gallery
 
New Glass: A Worldwide Survey
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1979 through 1979
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Renwick Gallery
Toledo Museum of Art
Hikari no shouchu: sekai no garasu = The glass (1992) p. 169, #284; BIB# 58995
Recent Important Acquisitions, 31 (1989) illustrated, p. 114, #40;
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1988 (1989) p. 7;
New Glass: A Worldwide Survey (1979) p. 183, #187; BIB# 20603

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