Boom (from the Boom Series)
Artist
Dread Scott [born Scott Tyler]
(American, born 1965)
Date2001
MediumColor screenprint on Stonehenge white paper
DimensionsOverall: 30 x 22 1/4in. (76.2 x 56.5cm)
Image: 26 1/2 x 19 1/2in. (67.3 x 49.5cm)
Image: 26 1/2 x 19 1/2in. (67.3 x 49.5cm)
ClassificationsRECREATIONAL ARTIFACTS
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number2002.15
DescriptionThe artist appropriated a 1997 front page of the New York Times, whose headline reports record stock market volume in the United States. He overlaid the newspaper image with one of third world guerrilla fighters and the word "BOOM", tying hypercapitalism to global effects.On View
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Label TextThe artist appropriated a 1997 front page of the New York Times, whose headline reports record stock market volume in the United States. He overlaid the newspaper image with one of third world guerrilla fighters and the word "BOOM", tying hypercapitalism to global effects.
MEM
2002
