Robert Longo

Monument to the Homeless

1986

Red childlike house drawing over factory backdrop with names and the words "Monument to the Homeless."
Red childlike house drawing over factory backdrop with names and the words "Monument to the Homeless."

Recto

Not on view

Date
1986

Classification
Prints

Medium
Screenprint

Dimensions
Sheet: 22 1/16 × 27 9/16 in. (56 × 70 cm) Image: 19 3/4 × 26 in. (50.2 × 66 cm)

Accession number
2006.37.9

Edition
9/50

Publication
Printed by Lower East Side Printshop, Inc. New York; published by PADD [Political Art Documentation/Distribution]

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Print Committee

Rights and reproductions
© Robert Longo/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
artworks/27855

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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