Phenomena Over Green Mantle

Paul Jenkins

1969

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nude figures
Sun, Costantino Nivola, lithograph on Arches paper
This print is overall gray-black in color. The central abstract form contains the texture of the wood veneer chine collé. The print represents abstract but anthropomorphic forms resembling folds of skin, eyes, and a bulbous nose. The image is centered, extending beyond the top and bottom of the plate, with vacant space colored by the plate at its left and right.
Black and white press print of an older white man (Lester Maddox) in a suit holding a pair of buffalo horns to his forehead. Includes caption "AJP091602-9/16/70-ATLANTA: "Some people think I have horns and this must be the way I look to them." Georgia Gov. Lester Maddox-who likes to have as much fun as the next person-shows off a pair of water buffalo horns that was sent to him by a Georgia serviceman in Vietnam. The letter that was enclosed said the horns was given to the soldier after his Company routed Viet Cong from a village where several of the villagers had been killed. The soldier explained that the villagers had sacrificed the $800 buffalo because of the loss of their friends and relatives in the Cong raid.(UPI)"