Boris Margo

Even the Finest Arms Are an Instrument of Evil
1970

A textured embossed print featuring a book-like design with raised lines resembling the spine and pages on the right side. On the left, there is a circular seal with an embossed insect motif above a smaller circular copyright symbol. The right side of the print has embossed, illegible text, giving the appearance of a page of text. The artwork is on a cream-colored paper with a handwritten inscription at the bottom.

A textured embossed print featuring a book-like design with raised lines resembling the spine and pages on the right side. On the left, there is a circular seal with an embossed insect motif above a smaller circular copyright symbol. The right side of the print has embossed, illegible text, giving the appearance of a page of text. The artwork is on a cream-colored paper with a handwritten inscription at the bottom.

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Date
1970

Classification
Prints

Medium
Embossed cellocut

Dimensions
Sheet: 19 1/8 × 27 7/8in. (48.5 × 70.8 cm) Image: 18 7/16 × 27 3/4in. (46.8 × 70.5 cm)

Accession number
2003.43

Edition
AP

Publication
Printed by Boris Margo

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Murray Zimiles

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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Boris Margo
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