Two Generals by Misch Kohn

Two Generals by Misch Kohn

Two Generals

Misch Kohn

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Title

Two Generals

 
Artist

Misch Kohn

  1916 - 2003 (biography)
Year
1965  
Technique
sugar-lift ground, aquatint and etching, printed in relief 
Image Size
13 5/8 x 11" platemark 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
2 of 50  
Annotations
pencil titled, dated and editioned 
Reference
Hernandez 325 
Paper
BFK Rives watermarked wove 
State
i/i (published) 
Publisher
Lacouriere, Paris 
Inventory ID
14823 
Price
$1,400.00 
Description

This print, though an intaglio, is printed relief, from the surface of the plate. The lines that would read as black if printed intaglio instead read as white, creating a ghostly image like a photo negative.

Kohn cataloguer Jo Farb Hernandez comments about this image on page 210 of the raisonné:

"Two bald, mustachioed military officers, their uniforms defined by assorted mechanical parts, coins, and gauges, caucus against a black background." And, on pages 90-92,

"Kohn developed new images of military might and police power...'Two Generals' and 'Two Generals II' printed in relief as if their blackness would accentuate the potential of death they could effect, are among the most compellingly evocative images of this image.

He underscored his visual concerns by donating prints to support a variety of leftist causes, from auctions supporting the Mississippi Summer Freedom Schools to Eugene McCarthy's run for president."

 

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