id: 312278
accession number: 2018.33.82
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url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.33.82
updated: 2023-08-24 01:23:07.719000
The Bad Air Smelled of Roses: Spreads Like The Flu It Jes Grew and Grew!, 2004-ongoing. Carl Pope Jr. (American, b. 1961), printed by the artist at York Show Print, York, Alabama. Letterpress poster; 48.3 x 35.6 cm (19 x 14 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Whitehill Art Purchase Endowment Fund and gift of David Lusenhop in honor of the artist 2018.33.82
title: The Bad Air Smelled of Roses: Spreads Like The Flu It Jes Grew and Grew!
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creation date: 2004-ongoing
creation date earliest: 2004
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creditline: Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Whitehill Art Purchase Endowment Fund and gift of David Lusenhop in honor of the artist
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culture: America
technique: letterpress poster
department: Prints
collection: Prints
type: Print
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CREATORS
* Carl Pope Jr. (American, b. 1961) - artist
* the artist at York Show Print, York, Alabama
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measurements: 48.3 x 35.6 cm (19 x 14 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Who RU2 Day: Mass Media and the Fine Art Print
opening date: 2018-11-18T05:00:00
Who RU2 Day: Mass Media and the Fine Art Print. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 18, 2018-March 24, 2019).
title: Photographs in Ink
opening date: 2022-11-20T05:00:00
Photographs in Ink. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 20, 2022-April 2, 2023).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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Carl Pope Jr. challenges us to look beyond mainstream preconceptions of Blackness in society. Here, behind the bold poetic text, we see a mosaic of Black faces. The artist made these prints in a letterpress shop. In addition to cases of movable type used to create text, these workshops often have large collections of historic photorelief blocks—halftone headshots and stock images produced for everything from newspapers and posters to sheet music covers. While the printed materials were ephemeral, the printing blocks were saved, to be reused when an individual was back in the news or returned to town; the printed images sat in drawers awaiting an unknown future world of possibilities.
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