Still life of objects sculptural figures, pink camellia flowers, Japanese screen, skeleton, figure in traditional Japanese dress, colored string.

Hiroshima Memorial #1

Artist Robert Fichter (American, 1939 - 2023)

Date1981

MediumCibachrome

Dimensions36 × 24 1/2 in. (91.4 × 62.2 cm)

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineGift of Robert and Nancy Fichter

Object number2016.10.2

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Visual DescriptionStill life of objects sculptural figures, pink camellia flowers, Japanese screen, skeleton, figure in traditional Japanese dress, colored string.

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Color photo-inset combined within an overall black and white aquatint. Photo-inset displays a photo tableau of pink flowers, skeleton model, doll puppet in kimono, and three traditional Japanese prints of warriors and an ogre philosopher (?). The dominant black and white aquatint consists of several recurring characters and themes in Fichter's work: the donkey, outsized fish, nuclear devastation, and Baby Genepool (cyclops baby in the foreground). There is also the back of a woman in kimono, the…

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