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Title: Coke Machine and Missile, Alabama, U.S.A., from "Recent Developments"
Artist: Elliott Erwitt
Artist Life Dates: Born 1928
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1974
Accession Number: 1987/1.175.2
Medium and Support: gelatin silver print on paper
relevance: rank 10.79449
Primary Keywords: advertisement; americas; bomb; satire; weaponry; weapons

Title: Human Puppet Head
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Bamana Peoples, Mali
Physical Description: A stylized rendering of a human face with long narrow nose, round eyes set close to bridge of nose, and open, ellipitical mouth. The head is carved in shape of a coiffure that resembles a helmet which extends down the sides of the head. The head is topped with a high arched sagital crest. Patina is dark brown in color with traces of red and blue pigment. Sheet metal cut in circles and long strips embellish the top of the head.
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1900-1970
Accession Number: 1971/2.21
Medium and Support: wood, sheet metal, cloth and pigment
relevance: rank 10.79449
Primary Keywords: head; masquerades; puppet theaters; puppets; satire

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Title: The Village Voice
Artist: Conrad Atkinson
Physical Description: The cover format of the New York weekly newspaper The Village Voice is appropriated, with satirical headlines related to topical current events.
Artist Life Dates: born 1940
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1988
Accession Number: 2004/2.36
Medium and Support: acrylic on canvas
relevance: rank 10.56713
Primary Keywords: appropriation; artists; newspapers; nuclear wars; political art; satire

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Title: The Detraction of Good Things [Detractio Bonorum] from Sebastian Brant's "Stultifera navis [The Ship of Fools]" published by Johann Bergmann
Artist: Anonymous
Physical Description: Text on both sides. One side has the image of a man with dogs at his feet. There is also a jester at his feet, kneeling down.
Century: 15th century
Accession Number: 2013/2.550.1-2
Medium and Support: woodcut on paper
relevance: rank 10.24351
Primary Keywords: bones (objects); books; cats; dogs; ears; fountains; satire; staffs (walking sticks)

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Title: UtopianCannibal.org
Artist: Enrique Chagoya
Physical Description: Codex book connected by a series of eight accordian folds composed of lithographs, woodcuts, chine collé, and collage. The work reads right to left with the rightmost page titled "UtopianCannibal.org" and the leftmost page with the single word "Fin" (translates to "end").
Artist Life Dates: born 1953
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 2000
Accession Number: 2001/2.81
Medium and Support: color lithograph, woodcut, chine collé, and collage
relevance: rank 10.13999
Primary Keywords: cartoons (humorous images); folk art; historical figures; mexican; political and social issues; satire

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