The Gun And The Dog
Artwork details
- Artist
- Burt Barr
- Title
- The Gun And The Dog
- Description
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Photogravure
Burt Barr’s photogravure The Gun and The Dog is a visually arresting comment on culture, dead serious but cartoonish and satirical as well. The pistol and the maw of the dog are a double-barreled threat pointing directly at the viewer. The black and white images, resembling magazine or billboard advertising, evoke the hair-trigger violence of American culture and its slick, packaged veneer in the mass media. The human figure, in pin stripes, is wreathed in smoke that could come from the just-fired gun or perhaps from a cigarette, while the smiling dog seems ready to lunge with its very white, very clean fangs.
- Date
- 2007
- Medium
- Photogravure
- Edition
- 20
- Signature
- Signed
- Catalogue Raisonne
- 0
- Sheet
- 21 3/16 x 40 5/16 inches
- Status
- Available
- Price
- $1,200.00
