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Maker(s):Motherwell, Robert; Paz, Octavio; Weinberger, Eliot
Culture:American (Motherwell 1915 - 1991); Mexican
Title:Vuelta; Wind
Date Made:1979 poetry copyright; 1979 translation copyright
Type:Print
Materials:lithograph and printed text on paper
Place Made:United States
Measurements:sheet: 21 1/4 x 36 1/8 in.; 53.975 x 91.7575 cm; stone: 16 5/8 x 11 7/8 in.; 42.2275 x 30.1625 cm; image: 16 3/8 x 11 1/2 in.; 41.5925 x 29.21 cm
Narrative Inscription:  unsigned, undated
Accession Number:  SC 1998.24h
Credit Line:Gift of Benjamin Shiff
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
1998_24h.jpg

Description:
abstract image on left with English poem segment in black on right over same segment in Spanish in red; [English segment] Wind/on the dusty corners/turns the papers/ Yesterday's news/more remote/than a cuneiform tablet smashed into bits/ Cracked scriptures/languages in pieces/the signs were broken/atl tlachinolli/was split/burnt water

Subjects:
Lithography

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