| Title |
Brecht (art print) |
| Creator |
Frasconi, Antonio, 1919- |
| Room Number |
2500 |
| Description |
At the top of this print is the first stanza of Brecht's poem, "Of Poor Old B.B. "I, Bertolt Brecht, come from the black forests. My mother carried me into the cities As I lay in her body. And the cold of the forests Will be in me till I die." The rest of the print is a drawing of Brecht's head/face. Renowned artist, designer and educator Antonio Frasconi was born in Argentina and moved to the United States in 1945. Became a printmaker known for his woodcuts. |
| Collection Name |
Marriott Library Permanent Art Collection |
| About the Artist |
"Born on April 28, 1919, in Montevideo, Uruguay to parents who had emigrated from Italy during World War I, Antonio Frasconi grew up in Montevideo. By age twelve he was apprenticing at a local printmakers, and soon thereafter began publishing his cartoons in satirical newspapers. In the 1940s Frasconi began experimenting with woodcuts in the 1940s, and in 1945 he received a scholarship from the Art Students' League, and moved to New York to begin his formal education. By the 1950s he had become widely recognized as a leading graphic artist, especially in woodblock printing. He married artist Leona Pierce in 1951 and in 1955 published See and Say, A Picture Book in Four Languages, for their son. Over the course of the next fifty years he would illustrate and design over 100 books including the poems of Langston Hughes: Let America be America Again and Pablo Neruda's Bestiary/Bestiario, the images of America's Vietnam, and A Whitman Portrait. The dictatorship in Uruguay was long and hard, finally coming to an end in 1985, four years after the artist began work on his magnum opus, Los Desaparecidos, or The Disappeared, a series of woodcuts and monotypes. Dark, graphically strong, and echoing the book format, Frasconi's art successfully portrays the horrors of torture, incarceration, and killing while specifically preserving the memory of real people." from Annex Galleries.com website |
| Subject |
Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956--In Art; Public art--Utah; Art museums--Utah; University of Utah. Libraries--Art |
| Date |
1945; 1946; 1947; 1948; 1949; 1950; 1951; 1952; 1953; 1954; 1955; 1956; 1957; 1958; 1959; 1960; 1961; 1962; 1963; 1964; 1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1969; 1970; 1971; 1972; 1973; 1974; 1975; 1976; 1977; 1978; 1979; 1980; 1981; 1982; 1983; 1984; 1985; 1986; 1987; 1988; 1989; 1990; 1991; 1992; 1993; 1994; 1995; 1996; 1997; 1998; 1999; 2000; 2001; 2002; 2003; 2004; 2005; 2006; 2007; 2008; 2009; 2010 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Medium |
Print from woodcut |
| Height Framed |
34.00 inches |
| Width, Framed |
26.50 inches |
| Height Unframed |
27.00 inches |
| Width Unframed |
20.00 inches |
| Depth (3D Objects) |
n/a |
| Signature Location |
Bottom Right Corner |
| Library Number |
105 |
| Rights |
 |
| Digitization Specifications |
JPEG2000 image for display, Archival tiff generated by Photoshop. Original image captured by Photoshop. Original image captured with Nikon D300s at 12.3 megapixels |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Type |
Image/StillImage |
| Identifier |
index.cpd |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6p26zxc |
| Setname |
uum_mlpac |
| ID |
235112 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6p26zxc |
