The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist

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The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist
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The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist

Maker (b. 1973, Great Neck, New York)
Date2007
GeographyUnited States, North and Central America
MediumPapier-mâché reconstructions of artifacts looted from the Iraq Museum in 2003
Dimensionsvarious sizes
ClassificationSCULPTURE
Credit LineMuseum purchase, The Maryam and Edward Eisler/Goldman Sachs Gives Fund on Art and Visual Culture in the Near, Middle, and Far East
Object number2017.161-.165
Status
Not on view
Standing Woman (Circus Figure)
Elie Nadelman
Standing Woman (Circus Figure)
ca. 1930s
Image Not Available for Remember the Vet Who Can't Forget, from the portfolio "War is Trauma"
Michael RakowitzJustseeds Artists' CooperativeIraq Veterans Against the WarCombat Paper Project
Remember the Vet Who Can't Forget, from the portfolio "War is Trauma"
2010
Every Weapon Is a Tool if You Hold It Right, from the portfolio "Celebrate People's History: Iraq Veterans Against the War - Ten Years of Fighting for Peace and Justice"
Michael RakowitzCivilian-Soldier AllianceRepetitive PressJustseeds Artists' CooperativeBooklyn Artists AllianceIraq Veterans Against the War
Every Weapon Is a Tool if You Hold It Right, from the portfolio "Celebrate People's History: Iraq Veterans Against the War - Ten Years of Fighting for Peace and Justice"
2015
Untitled, from "Ignitions" ("Hephaestus' Breath" burn drawing series)
Jo Sandman
Untitled, from "Ignitions" ("Hephaestus' Breath" burn drawing series)
ca. 1999/2000
Untitled, from "Ignitions" ("Hephaestus' Breath" burn drawing series)
Jo Sandman
Untitled, from "Ignitions" ("Hephaestus' Breath" burn drawing series)
ca. 1999/2000
Passages (for Judith Gordon)
Joan Snyder
Passages (for Judith Gordon)
1991
Image Not Available for Hasta La Casta
Michael MenchacaJulia Samuels
Hasta La Casta
2017
Image Not Available for Gotta Catch ‘Em All!
Michael MenchacaHenry BrownJulia Samuels
Gotta Catch ‘Em All!
2017
America First
Michael MenchacaJulia Samuels
America First
2017
Mariachi Calavera – Nadie debe lamentarse por muerte desus amores, mas bien debe conformarse sabiendo que hasta las flores nacen para marchitarse. (Musicians’ Skeletons – No one should lament the death of a loved one. It is better to be comforted with the knowledge that flowers are born to wilt.)
Carlos Cortez
Mariachi Calavera – Nadie debe lamentarse por muerte desus amores, mas bien debe conformarse sabiendo que hasta las flores nacen para marchitarse. (Musicians’ Skeletons – No one should lament the death of a loved one. It is better to be comforted with the knowledge that flowers are born to wilt.)
1984
Blues, Harlem, NY, from the series "Invisible Man"
Ming Smith
Blues, Harlem, NY, from the series "Invisible Man"
ca. 1986 (printed ca. 1986)
Image Not Available for This is the Enemy
Stevan Dohanos
This is the Enemy
1943