Sp17 Aguayo - COMPLIT 122 - Writing World Literatures - Literature and Resistance in the Americas

Enrique Chagoya
UtopianCannibal.org
color lithograph, woodcut, chine collé, and collage
7 1/2 in. x 92 in. ( 19 cm x 233.7 cm )
Museum Purchase made possible by the Jean Paul Slusser Memorial Fund
This image is a circular format black and white photograph depicting four young African American girls wearing floral dresses lounging on a blanket in the grass. Three girls sit or prop themselves up and look at the camera, the fourth girl lays down, with her eyes closed. The glass in the frame has a domed surface, creating a fish-eye effect.
Carrie Mae Weems
After Manet
chromogenic print on paper
33 ¾ in x 33 ¾ in x 1 ½ in (85.73 cm x 85.73 cm x 3.81 cm);33 ¾ in x 33 ¾ in x 1 ½ in (85.73 cm x 85.73 cm x 3.81 cm)
Museum purchase made possible by the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund
This print has rows of stencilled black text in all capital letters on white background. In pencil, the print is signed and dated (l.r.) "Glenn Lignon '92" and numbered (l.l.) "27/45". 
Glenn Ligon
Untitled
etching, aquatint, spitbite, and sugarlift on Rives BFK paper
25 in x 17 1/4 in (63.5 cm x 43.82 cm);32 3/16 in x 26 3/16 in (81.76 cm x 66.52 cm)
Museum Purchase
This print is composed of sets of faces in three registers.  Along the top, in a black stripe, is a repeated, closely cropped image of a woman's face looking to the left.  In the middle left are five repeated images in shades of brown of a woman's face looking right, toward the face of a man in black.  Along the bottom are three large images of a woman's face in green, brown and blue.
Elizabeth Catlett
Malcolm X Speaks for Us
linoleum cut on paper
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Gift of Elizabeth Catlett
This photograph depicts a view of a desert landscape with a fish hanging from the top of a thin pole in the foreground.  Behind the fish is a small cemetery that has mounds and crosses and in the distance are a few small buildings. Two more poles with fish hanging from them appear farther away in the image to the right of the fish in the foreground.
Patrick Nagatani
Japanese Children's Day Carp Banners, Paguate Village, Jackpile Mine Uranium Tailings, Laguna Pueblo Reservation, New Mexico
dye destruction print on paper
16 ⅛ in x 20 1/16 in (40.96 cm x 50.96 cm)
Gift of Beverly Baker in memory of Morris D. Baker
This is an abstract face of a figure looking to the right. The head is divided into compartments of varying textures by several straight lines. There are piano keys are on the left side of the head, and a cigarette at top left. 
Sargent Claude Johnson
Lenox Avenue
lithograph on paper
12 ½ in x 8 9/16 in (31.75 cm x 21.75 cm)
Allocated by the U.S. Government Commissioned through the New Deal art projects
This print has an abstract design with thick black circular lines. There are blue circles in bottom right corner of the print and a red, yellow, and orange abstract shape in center of print. The print is signed (l.r.) "Matta" and numbered (l.l.) "64/125" in pencil.
Roberto Matta
La Catalyseur
color etching and aquatint on Arches paper
8 3/16 in x 6 5/8 in (20.8 cm x 16.83 cm);12 15/16 in x 9 15/16 in (32.86 cm x 25.24 cm);19 3/8 in x 14 3/8 in (49.21 cm x 36.51 cm)
Museum Purchase
This abstract etching is covered in seemingly random black marks and smudges. There are also two main forms in the work: a yellow backwards "L" in the center and a loosely stacked sequence of green oval shapes, to the right. Each is outlined in black. The print is on white paper mounted on a pale blue paper. Artist's signature and edition number are included below the print.
Roberto Matta
Untitled (Plate I)
etching and aquatint with soft-ground and chine collé on paper
13 in x 10 3/4 in (33 cm x 27.3 cm);22 1/8 in x 18 in (56.2 cm x 45.8 cm)
Gift of Jean Paul Slusser
This vertical print is bisected by four horizontal light blue squares approximately one third of the way up from the bottom. The second square from the left is joined by a square above and below so that all the liight blue squares create a horizontally oriented cross. Both inside and outside the cross-grid there are seven tan figures, who seem to be engaged in a variety of activities. There are a number of designs that move out from the cross, some related to what is pictured inside and some not. The print is signed and dated (l.l.) "Matta 47" and numbered (l.r.) "57/70" in pencil.
Roberto Matta
I Want To See It To Believe It
color lithograph on paper
16 1/2 in x 13 in (41.91 cm x 33.02 cm);16 1/2 in x 13 in (41.91 cm x 33.02 cm);22 1/16 in x 18 1/8 in (56.04 cm x 46.04 cm);28 1/8 in x 22 1/8 in (71.44 cm x 56.2 cm)
Museum Purchase
A group of men sit at a round table drinking. The full moon is seen through a window on the right.
Armando Morales
La Ultima Cena del General Sandino
lithograph on paper
30 1/8 in. x 22 7/16 in. ( 76.5 cm x 57 cm )
Gift of the Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin
Alfredo Zalce
Oppression
linocut on paper
16 1/8 x 12 3/8 in. (40.96 x 31.43 cm)
Gift of Gilbert M. Frimet
In the foreground, there is a man laying on a large human-sized book, one hand on his chin and the other holding a pencil to the page. In front of his pencil, the text "Mendez" and "1945" is printed. On the pages of the book are a skeleten-creature and on the opposite page an angel. Behind the man and the book is a large cactus, and then a large cross rises from its base. The cross is encircled by a large snake-like creature whose head is open, facing away, and an eagle is crucified with knives. Coming from the ends of the cross are what seems to be spears, pointing clockwise. Behind this foreground scene, there is an army marching under a flag with the skull and crossbones. A priest follows behind the army, seemingly coming from the open mouth of the large serpent whose tail holds the feet of the crucified eagle. To the left there are two more crucified figures, whose crosses are on fire. In the far background, there is a vista of a large city. 
Leopoldo Méndez
Lo que puede venir
woodcut on paper
12 in x 6 15/16 in (30.48 cm x 17.62 cm);14 ¼ in x 10 ⅜ in (36.2 cm x 26.35 cm);22 ⅛ in x 18 ⅛ in (56.2 cm x 46.04 cm)
Museum Purchase

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