Poskromienie and Ztosnicy

Work on Paper

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DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Poskromienie and Ztosnicy

Entry/Object ID

2012.107

Description

Theater poster for Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew" depicting a bound, gagged, and tied up woman in blue dress with exposed breast before a night-time mountain scene.

Artwork Details

Medium

Photomechanical print

Subject Person

William Shakespeare

Context

Date note: Rare Vintage Posters, Ebay, and Mr Poster listings have this poster date as 1977 Born in 1945 in Sopot, Poland, Andrzej Dudzinski studied architecture, interior design and graphic arts at the Gdansk University of Technology and the Gdansk State College of Visual Arts. Dudzinski would study under Henryk Tomaszewski, the father of the Polish Poster School at the Academy of Fine Arts Warsaw. In the 1970’s Dudzinski lived in London where his work was featured in the periodicals Ink, Oz, Frendz,and Time Out. He would return to Poland and become famous for his signature cartoon bird Dudi, whose nonconforming thoughts he published in satirical weekly, Szpilki. Dudzinski’s artistic oeuvre includes children’s books, film and television, as well as many film and theater posters. Dudzinski liquidated his New York Studio in 2007 and donated his archives to the Hoover Institution

Acquisition

Notes

Collection of DePaul Art Museum, gift of Martin Rosenberg

Made/Created

Artist

Dudzinski, Andrzej

Notes

Unknown creation date

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Country

Poland

Continent

Europe

Notes

Europe Poland

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Location

R: TL

Notes

Inscription Type: "William Shakespeare/Poskromienie and Tosnicy/Teatr Rozmaitosei/Warszawa"

Location

R: BC

Notes

Inscription Type: "A. Dudzinski"

Location

V: BL corner

Notes

Inscription Type: "35"

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Poster, Theater

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Theater

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Poster

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Building, Performing Arts

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Cultural & Recreational Structures

Nomenclature Class

Advertising Media

Nomenclature Class

Structures

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 01: Built Environment 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

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Theater posters

Dimensions

Dimension Description

overall

Width

26-1/2 in

Length

38-1/2 in