Kansas, Mark Goodman

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Mark Goodman, artist
born 1946
Kansas, 1976
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 24.5 x 24.5 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 9 5/8 x 9 5/8 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 20 x 16 in
Credit line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Maurice Miller
Accession number: 1981.0012
Not on display

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Exhibition Label: "Claimed: Land Use in Western America," Jun-2007, Kate Meyer “In 1780 a London paper criticized the American ‘mania for enclosures,’ noting: ‘The stripping of forests to build fortifications around personal property is a perfect example of the way these people in the New World live and think.’” Hildegard Binder Johnson, Order Upon the Land: The U.S. Rectangular Land Survey and the Upper Mississippi Country, 1976 Exhibition Label: "The Family in Photography," Dec-1997, Stefanie Vigil The picket fence in this photograph is a symbol of the traditional family and the American dream . The diminished place it occupies in the photograph represents changing American values. Tradition has been replaced by consumerism.