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Poster, Wozzeck
This is a Poster. It is dated 1964 and we acquired it in 2013. Its medium is offset lithograph on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
This poster depicts a scene from Alban Berg’s atonal opera Wozzeck. The title character stabs the mother of his child and throws the bloodied weapon into a lake. He later drowns while trying to retrieve the knife. The illustration unites Wozzeck’s cries with the currents of the bloodied water and the blood-red moon above.
This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled A Bloody, Primal Scream.
It is credited Museum purchase from Friends of Drawings & Prints Fund.
![A vertically rectangular poster framed with a white border depicting a bluescale image of the head of a woman, Jenifer Lewis, with a bouffant, 1960s hairdo, contrasted against a bright yellow, solid background. She has an unrestrained, urgent, possibly distressed expression on her face, with a jaw-dropped open mouth, wrinkled forehead, long-eyelashed eyes wide, and eyebrows raised. The left half of her face is in shadow, slightly obscuring her features, while the right half is overexposed and bright white. Black sans serif text, outlined in orange, in bold, capitalised letters of varying weights and spacing, expands from her mouth, as though she is shouting or singing the words, in a windmill-like projection with four diagonal axes. Going clockwise from the left the text states [THE / DIVA / IS DISMISSED / CO-WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY / CHARLES / RANDOLPH-WRIGHT / CO-WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY / JENIFER LEWIS / LIMITED ENGAGEMENT! / NOW PLAYING!]. Most of the words are oriented from left to right on a diagonal, except for two words, [THE] & [CHARLES], which are oriented vertically. In the top right corner, aligned vertically along the right margin, is some additional text, which states: [THE], which is orange and aligned right to left and upside down; [PUBLIC] which is black with an orange outline and aligned vertically top down; [THEATER], which is black with an orange outline and aligned horizontally. Below this is the logo of the theater, a black circle with a stylised orange [S] inside and the words [SHIVA / THEATER] in orange capitals. Below the logo is the address and phone number of the theater; [425 LAFAYETTE STREET (212) 598-7150]. In the top left corner, in tiny black font is some text that is illegible, aligned vertically along the left margin.](https://images.collection.cooperhewitt.org/80074_7f51450f46fe4e37_n.jpg "Poster, The Diva is Dismissed, 1994")
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- screenprint on paper.
- Gift of Paula Scher.
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- screenprint on wove paper.
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- 2010-21-63
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- offset lithograph on wove paper.
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- Poster, Teatr Wielki, Charles Gounod Foust [Charles Gounod's Faust]
- offset lithograph on paper.
- Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
- 2009-20-30
Its dimensions are
H x W: 97.3 × 67.6 cm (38 5/16 × 26 5/8 in.)
Cite this object as
Poster, Wozzeck; Poland; offset lithograph on paper; H x W: 97.3 × 67.6 cm (38 5/16 × 26 5/8 in.); Museum purchase from Friends of Drawings & Prints Fund; 2013-30-1
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition How Posters Work.
