Jill Magid

The man was a fool
2007

A piece of artwork featuring a printed text passage with certain words and phrases crossed out in blue ink and others highlighted in yellow. The text discusses the folly of a man's dependence on mechanical weapons instead of his natural ones, his eyes. The piece is numbered and signed by the artist in the bottom right corner.

A piece of artwork featuring a printed text passage with certain words and phrases crossed out in blue ink and others highlighted in yellow. The text discusses the folly of a man's dependence on mechanical weapons instead of his natural ones, his eyes. The piece is numbered and signed by the artist in the bottom right corner.

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Date
2007

Classification
Prints

Medium
Screenprint

Dimensions
Sheet (sight, irregular): 27 3/8 × 44 3/8in. (69.5 × 112.7 cm) Image (sight, irregular): 7 1/2 × 32 3/8in. (19.1 × 82.2 cm)

Accession number
2021.146.9

Series
The Kosinski Quotes

Edition
13/15

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Pamela and Arthur Sanders

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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Jill Magid
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