Object Details
- Designer
- Clifford Stoltze
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Poster depicts a photograph—with color blocking in tan and purple/black—of piles of shoes. Text reads: WE ARE THE SHOES, WE ARE THE LAST WITNESSES. / WE ARE SHOES OF GRANDCHILDREN AND GRANDFATHERS, / FROM PRAGUE, PARIS, AND AMSTERDAM, / AND BECAUSE WE ARE ONLY MADE OF FABRIC AND LEATHER / AND NOT OF BLOOD AND FLESH, / EACH ONE OF US AVOIDED THE HELLFIRE. / --MOSES SCHULSTEIN (1911-1981) YIDDISH POET. Lower left: THE MUSEUM AS MORAL ARTIFACT: / DESIGNING THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM / A LECTURE BY RALPH APPELBAUM. Lower right: THE ROBERT P. GERSIN (’51) ANNUAL LECTURE / CO-SPONSORED BY THE DESIGN INSIGHT FOUNDATION / AND THE BOSTON CHAPTER OF THE / AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF GRAPHIC ARTS / 7:00 PM TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1994 / MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ART / TOWER AUDITORIUM / 621 HUNTINGTON AVENUE, 1ST FLOOR.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Clifford Stoltze
- 1994
- Accession Number
- 1997-172-1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Copyright Notice
- © Clifford Stoltze
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Poster
- Type
- Poster
- Medium
- Offset lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 40.8 x 61 cm (16 1/16 in. x 24 in.)
- made in
- USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1997-172-1
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4977f9f2b-3351-4899-919c-67c0624ebf50
