Larry Nichols

Peter Reiss

1986

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The Scream, Luis Cruz Azaceta, lithograph
Cole created this monumental print by embedding the perforated surface of an ironing board and twelve iron faceplates into a plywood sheet, flush to its surface. He then applied black ink to the whole and transferred the resulting image onto a sheet of white kozo-shi paper. The silhouetted image of the ironing board's surface resembles a historic slave-ship diagram, and the faceplate designs recall the facial scarification patterns worn by some tribal Africans.
embossed
Black Diamond, Radcliffe Bailey, military blankets, wool and wood