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Nancy SperoThou Shalt Not Kill (The Sixth Commandment)1987
1987
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Nancy Spero
Thou Shalt Not Kill (The Sixth Commandment), 1987
9 Color lithograph and letterpress on Dieu Donne handmade paper
24 × 18 inches
Edition AP 2/15
Signed and numbered AP 2/15, aside from the regular edition of 84
Printed by Peter Kruty, Dan Stack and Judy Solodkin
Unframed with deckled edges
This nine color lithograph and letterpress on Dieu Donne handmade paper is a signed, dated and numbered Artist's Proof, numbered AP 2/15, aside from the regular edition of 84. It was created as part of the 1987 portfolio "The Ten Commandments", in which ten top Jewish American artists were each invited to choose an Old Testament commandment to interpret in contemporary lithographic form. The "Chosen" artists were, in order of Commandment: Kenny Scharf, Joseph Nechvatal, Gretchen Bender, April Gornik, Robert Kushner, Nancy Spero, Vito Acconci, Jane Dickson, Judy Rifka and Richard Bosman. This lithograph is in excellent condition; unframed. This is the first time it will have been removed from the original portfolio case. (shown). Lisa Liebmann, who wrote the introduction to the collection, observed: "...The image has, for most of us, replaced the word..." With respect to the present work she writes, "When it comes to the SIXTH COMMANDMENT, Nancy Spero can be considered a fundamentalist. "Though Shalt Not Kill" could serve as the title for almost all of her work, for almost all of those figures, usually heathen, running across scrolls against aggression. This commandment is fitfully stamped here, in the cadence of machine-gun fire and the bold type of tabloid headlines, under the impression of a woman running with a child in her arms. Spero's image and its meaning are without irony or ambivalence. They are not, however, devoid of ambiguity, for the figure - based on a photograph of a Vietnamese woman fleeing attack - is not the image of a victim, but of a warrior performing a warrior's dance, an unarmed hawk against violence..."
Excellent original condition. Unframed with deckled edges.
- Creator:Nancy Spero (1926 - 2009, American)
- Creation Year:1987
- Dimensions:Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 18 in (45.72 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1745210943752
Nancy Spero
Nancy Spero (August 24, 1926 – October 18, 2009) was an American visual artist. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Spero lived for much of her life in New York City. She married and collaborated with artist Leon Golub. As both artist and activist, Nancy Spero had a career that spanned fifty years. She is known for her continuous engagement with contemporary political, social, and cultural concerns. Spero chronicled wars and apocalyptic violence as well as articulating visions of ecstatic rebirth and the celebratory cycles of life. Her complex network of collective and individual voices was a catalyst for the creation of her figurative lexicon representing women from prehistory to the present in such epic-scale paintings and collage on paper as Torture of Women (1976), Notes in Time on Women (1979) and The First Language (1981). In 2010, Notes in Time was posthumously reanimated as a digital scroll in the online magazine Triple Canopy. Spero has had a number of retrospective exhibitions at major museums.
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