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Violent Turn
James Rosenquist, 1933 - 2017
Rosenquist, James
United States
1933 - 2017
Male
36 1/2 x 73 3/4 in. (92.7 x 187.3 cm)
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1977
1977
1977
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The violence inherent in a machine of steel and glass designed to reach speeds of over 75 miles per hour is the subject of James Rosenquist’s abstract print, <em>Violent Turn</em>. This billboard-sized image highlights the danger such a machine—irrational, destructive—holds for a human body of flesh and bone. This was a threat the artist experienced first-hand in 1971 when he, his wife, and his son were all badly injured in a tragic car accident.
[label text for <em>Modern Icon: The Machine As Subject in American Art</em> exhibition, February 3 – March 6, 2012]
lower center, below imagelower left, below imagelower right, in margin, Man wearing a derby
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999