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The Slaying of Laius, Plate 3 from The Myth of Oedipus

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Description: The Slaying of Laius, Plate 3 from The Myth of Oedipus
TitleThe Slaying of Laius, Plate 3 from The Myth of Oedipus
Creator nameSeligmann, Kurt
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer
Creation date1944
Object typePrints
MaterialsEtching on off-white wove paper
Dimensions22 13/16 x 15 1/2 in. (57.9 x 39.4 cm)
LocationUniversity of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Accession numberUnknown
SubjectsHuman skeleton in artViolence in artMythology, Greek, in art
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Motherwell, Mexico, and Surrealism Revised
Ellen G. Landau
Description: Mexico and American Modernism
Mexico and American Modernism
In February 1944, just a few months after his startling debut at Peggy Guggenheim’s gallery Art of This Century, Jackson Pollock granted his first interview, set up as answers to a questionnaire in the West Coast–based Arts and Architecture magazine. Queried by an anonymous interviewer...
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Ellen G. Landau
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2013 by Ellen G. Landau
Related print edition pages: pp.89-119
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00082.007
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15285&redirecttoanchor=16101
Chapter subject tags:Modernism (Art)SurrealismMotherwell, Robert

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LocationMusée du Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010065426
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LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/486376
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Creator nationality/cultureItalian
Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer
Creation datec. 1470-1480
Object typePrint
MaterialsEngraving
Dimensions16 3/4 x 24 in. (42.4 x 60.9 cm)
LocationCleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland
http://www.clevelandart.org/art/1967.127
Accession number1967.127
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Creator nameSiqueiros, David Alfaro
Creator nationality/cultureMexican
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https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-three-graces/145eadd9-0b54-4b2d-affe-09af370b6932
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Creator namePoussin, Nicolas
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1632–1633
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
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http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/nicolas-poussin-a-bacchanalian-revel-before-a-term
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