All American Family

Richard Basil Mock

1944–2006

All American Family, 1995

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: linocut; wove paper

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 407 x 487 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 567 x 756 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 16 1/2 x 19 3/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 22 5/16 x 29 3/4 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 24 x 32 in

Credit line: Museum purchase: Museum of Art Acquisition Fund

Accession number: 1998.0007

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American Dream

Artists from both inside and outside the United States have noted the prominence of violence in U.S. society. Each of these three prints explores different aspects of its relation to the ideals of America. American artists Richard Basil Mock and Roger Shimomura connect a violent state of mind with ideas of family and patriotism. Egyptian artist Ganzeer’s representation of the Statue of Liberty firing a pistol in the air presents an aggressive approach to freedom. —Jack Hatzfeld

Exhibition Label: "Printed Art and Social Radicalism," Jun-2002, Stephen Goddard Richard Mock has described himself as an editorial printmaker, an artist who offers social and political commentary in the form of prints for publication in journals and newspapers. In All American Family Mock parodies those who would take the right to bear arms to an extreme, arming their dog and camouflaging their home. From 1980 through 1986 Mock’s prints appeared on the op-ed page of the New York Times. More recently his works have appeared in smaller but more politically oriented journals, such as the union journal United, displayed here.