- Title:
- Untitled (Star of David)
- Date:
- 1989
- Medium:
- Enamel on Masonite, spackle, and glue mixture
- Dimensions:
- 58 1/2 × 48 1/2 in. (148.6 × 123.2 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Vera G. List, by exchange
- Accession Number:
- 1992-165
Not On View
The Peppers, husband and wife, are members of the generation of Conceptual artists in Moscow who arose
from the underground art movement in the late 1970s. This painting is about measuring, charting, and quantifying, but the precise scientific meaning of the tables is of less consequence than the whole represented by the Star of David. Implicitly confrontational yet partly concealed, the star is a metaphor for the emergence of Jews from near invisibility within the Soviet Union and at the same time a reference to its use by the Nazis as an antisemitic device.
from the underground art movement in the late 1970s. This painting is about measuring, charting, and quantifying, but the precise scientific meaning of the tables is of less consequence than the whole represented by the Star of David. Implicitly confrontational yet partly concealed, the star is a metaphor for the emergence of Jews from near invisibility within the Soviet Union and at the same time a reference to its use by the Nazis as an antisemitic device.
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