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Photo, Print, Drawing [Americans of the decadence] / Ann Telnaes.

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About this Item

Title

  • [Americans of the decadence] / Ann Telnaes.

Summary

  • Editorial cartoon drawing portrays Americans as lazy, overweight, and indulgent, lounging on sofas, eating from oversized food containers, and watching televisions which are placed around the room to minimize the need to shift position for viewing; with togas and classic columns after the manner of Thomas Couture's "The Romans of the decadence."

Names

  • Telnaes, Ann, 1960-, artist
  • Couture, Thomas, 1815-1879.

Created / Published

  • 1997 August 9.

Headings

  • -  Eating & drinking--United States--1990-2000
  • -  Obesity--United States--1990-2000
  • -  Laziness--United States--1990-2000

Format Headings

  • Editorial cartoons--1990-2000.
  • Ink drawings--1990-2000.

Genre

  • Editorial cartoons--1990-2000
  • Ink drawings--1990-2000

Notes

  • -  Caption label from exhibit "Humor's Edge": American Over-Consumption. Ann Telnaes comments pointedly on over-consumption in American society in a number of her cartoons. "You see it so much," she says. "Just go down to your local Wal-Mart. Americans, in general, use a lot of stuff. Anyone that's done any traveling overseas knows how wasteful we are." Telnaes's scene of twentieth-century excess lampoons American over-consumption. Slothful, overweight figures recline amid plentiful fast-food containers and multiple televisions in a pseudo-Roman setting. This image is a take-off on the famous painting The Romans of the Decadence (1847), by French painter Thomas Couture (1815-1879), which created a stir at the Paris Salon of 1847.
  • -  Title from exhibit checklist.
  • -  Copyright by Ann Telnaes.
  • -  From North America Syndicate.
  • -  Exhibited: "Humor's Edge : Cartoons by Ann Telnaes" at the Library of Congress, 2004.

Medium

  • 1 drawing : ink brush over blue pencil underdrawing with opaque white and paste-on.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2004:013.11 [item] [P&P]

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital Id

  • ppmsca 04675 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.04675
  • cph 3c34258 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c34258

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2004666711

Reproduction Number

  • LC-DIG-ppmsca-04675 (digital file from original drawing) LC-USZ62-134258 (b&w film copy neg.)

Rights Advisory

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  • Rights Advisory: Publication may be restricted. For information see "Ann Telnaes Rights and Restrictions Information," https://aj.sunback.homes/rr/print/res/368_teln.html
  • Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-04675 (digital file from original drawing) LC-USZ62-134258 (b&w film copy neg.)
  • Call Number: Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2004:013.11 [item] [P&P]
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Telnaes, Ann, Artist, and Thomas Couture. Americans of the decadence / Ann Telnaes. United States, 1997. August 9. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2004666711/.

APA citation style:

Telnaes, A. & Couture, T. (1997) Americans of the decadence / Ann Telnaes. United States, 1997. August 9. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2004666711/.

MLA citation style:

Telnaes, Ann, Artist, and Thomas Couture. Americans of the decadence / Ann Telnaes. August 9. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2004666711/>.