Modern Man Followed By The Ghost of His Meat

Modern Man Followed By The Ghost of His Meat: Medium horizontal print in black and white tones shows a figure walking down a street at nighttime with a crescent moon and a cloudy sky at the top of the scene. The male figure is holding a bag of McDonalds and looking over his right shoulder at a gathering of ghost animals (chicken, sheep, cattle, and goats) under a street lamp coming forward diagonally from dark in the right background of the print. Behind the male figure on the left in the background is a butcher shop with various hanging meats and on the right of the scene is a parked car with a license plate that reads MEAT and a piglet at the steering wheel.
Modern Man Followed By The Ghost of His Meat

Medium horizontal print in black and white tones shows a figure walking down a street at nighttime with a crescent moon and a cloudy sky at the top of the scene. The male figure is holding a bag of McDonalds and looking over his right shoulder at a gathering of ghost animals (chicken, sheep, cattle, and goats) under a street lamp coming forward diagonally from dark in the right background of the print. Behind the male figure on the left in the background is a butcher shop with various hanging meats and on the right of the scene is a parked car with a license plate that reads MEAT and a piglet at the steering wheel.

Name/Title

Modern Man Followed By The Ghost of His Meat

Entry/Object ID

2019.P-G.098

Description

Medium horizontal print in black and white tones shows a figure walking down a street at nighttime with a crescent moon and a cloudy sky at the top of the scene. The male figure is holding a bag of McDonalds and looking over his right shoulder at a gathering of ghost animals (chicken, sheep, cattle, and goats) under a street lamp coming forward diagonally from dark in the right background of the print. Behind the male figure on the left in the background is a butcher shop with various hanging meats and on the right of the scene is a parked car with a license plate that reads MEAT and a piglet at the steering wheel.

Context

Sue Coe addresses issues of animal rights, cruelty to animals, the meatpacking industry, the ethics of meat consumption, and parallels between the wholesale slaughter of animals and genocide.

Collection

Palmeri-Goodstein Research Print Collection

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Sue Coe

Role

Artist

Date made

1990

Time Period

20th Century

Edition

Edition

276/500

Edition Size

500

Edition Number

276

Lexicon

Search Terms

PETA, Activism, Animal Rights, Food, Night

Dimensions

Height

13-1/8 in

Height

11-5/8 in

Width

15-3/4 in