Politics

Peter Saul, artist

born 1934

Landfall Press, printer and publisher

active 1970–2004

Politics, 1985

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: wove paper; color lithograph

Dimensions:
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 833 x 597 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 32 13/16 x 23 1/2 in
Frame Dimensions (Height x Width x Depth): 38 x 29 1/4 x 1 in
Weight (Weight): 10 lbs

Credit line: Gift of Don, Joyce, and Josh Omer

Accession number: 1989.0024

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Exhibition Label: "Printed Art and Social Radicalism," Jun-2002, Stephen Goddard In identifying a means for his social criticism, Peter Saul has cultivated what we might call an aesthetic of nausea. He makes calculated use of the ugly and the repulsive in his criticism of the aspects of U.S. culture he seeks to criticize, in this case the presidency of Ronald Reagan.