Madremu Biada (Trouble from the Mind)

Work on Paper

DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2009.162

Description

Theater poster for "Trouble from the Mind" showing 14 hands in different positions around the edge of the poster pointing towards a white silhouette of a figure in a tophat and jacket in a geometrically outlined cube. The poster is advertising a play at a theater. The theater is named in the top left corner and the playwright and show are written centered below the cube.

Artwork Details

Medium

Offset lithograph

Acquisition

Notes

Collection of DePaul Art Museum, gift of Martin Rosenberg

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Jerzy Kosinski

Role

Graphic Artist

Date made

1967

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Country

Poland

Continent

Europe

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Inscription

Location

Top and center

Transcription

[text in print]

Material/Technique

ink in print

Type

Inscription

Location

verso BRC

Transcription

Printed in Poland

Material/Technique

ink stamp

Type

Inscription

Location

verso BRC

Transcription

PS03-7-NJ

Material/Technique

graphite

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Poster, Theater

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Poster

Nomenclature Class

Advertising Media

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Getty AAT

Concept

posters, information artifacts, information forms (objects)

Hierarchy Name

Information Forms (hierarchy name), Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)

Facet

Objects Facet

Dimensions

Dimension Description

sheet

Width

26-1/2 in

Length

37-5/8 in