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Maker(s):Lamm, Leonid
Culture:American, born in Russia (1928-2017)
Title:The Head of guard, from the Portfolio of Illustrations to House of Death by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Date Made:1977-1982
Type:Print
Materials:lithograph
Measurements:Sheet: 23 3/4 x 17 1/2 in; 60.3 x 44.4 cm; Plate: 18 1/2 x 13 3/4 in; 47 x 34.9 cm
Accession Number:  AC 2025.02.1
Credit Line:Amherst Whitney Collection of Russian Art Fund
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College

Description:
At the top of the composition, the prisoners tell the story of how one of them attacked the head of the guard with a knife. He was a terrible person and everyone hated him. The arrested person was punished, after which he died in the hospital. Along the perimeter of the black hole are the hands of a prisoner with a knife, and in the center of the black hole there is a special table on which inmates were punished with a whip.

Вверху композиции заключенные рассказывают историю о том, как один из них напал на начальника охраны с ножом. Он был ужасным человеком, и все его ненавидели. Арестованный был наказан, после чего скончался в больнице. По периметру черной дыры - руки заключенного с ножом, а в центре черной дыры - специальный стол, на котором сокамерников наказывали плетью.

Subjects:
Lithography

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