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Learning to Discern
Learning to Discern
Learning to Discern

Learning to Discern

Artist (born Long Beach, California, 1950)
Date1998
MediumMixed media on canvas with reconstructed book and bullet holes
DimensionsOverall: 67 1/4 × 124 in. (170.8 × 315 cm)
Sheet Overall: 50 × 36 in. (127 × 91.4 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineGift of the artist
Terms
  • figurative
Object number2002.31 A-C
DescriptionA: Target motif on human figure with white background covered in gauze. B: White hand with wrist coming out of LC, holding white bird in red field. Hand and bird are made of book pages. C: Exposed red canvas. Pieces sewn back together. Cut out in human figure replaced with text.
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