Antonio Frasconi

The 42nd Parallel

1978

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Date
1978

Classification
Prints

Medium
Photo-offset lithograph

Dimensions
Sheet: 24 15/16 × 19 3/16 in. (63.3 × 48.7 cm) Image: 21 1/16 × 15 3/4 in. (53.5 × 40 cm)

Accession number
2006.37.5

Edition
9/50

Publication
Printed by Ragged Edge Press; published by PADD [Political Art Documentation/Distribution]

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Print Committee

Rights and reproductions
© Antonio Frasconi / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
artworks/27851

Part of a series:
Concrete Crisis: Urban Images of the 80's
14 works

Two large coin illustrations overlaid with a blue Lewis Mumford quotation about the city's mission.
A large hovering mother ship beams light down on two people standing in an empty urban lot.
Young person in a striped tank top gestures confidently against a bright, stylized urban background.
Bold poster showing multiple handguns and the text "Comfort? ..in the Streets".
A poster showing three distressed figures with repetitive "poverty" text and "Concrete Crisis: A PADD Project, 1987".
Red lips-shaped cutout overlays radial black-and-white city skyline, creating a bold central focal point.
A person kneeling and biting a severed leg labeled "Survival Manual" with blood dripping, captioned "Last Leg."
Two yellow wrestlers grapple on a red disc above a black-and-white cityscape with text "Lets you and him fight."
A stylized skyscraper collapses onto a person beside a car under a crane, labeled as a concrete crisis.
Red childlike house drawing over factory backdrop with names and the words "Monument to the Homeless."


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