This wood and paint
bear effigy (ca 1870) is a gift from Thom Weisel to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
The selection also features compelling sculptures from the Pacific Northwest, including a monumental
bear effigy made by a Haida artist and formerly in Andy Warhol's personal collection.
Image:
Bear effigy, ca 1870.
Not exact matches
The MacGuffin of Night Moves is the same as the microfilm -
bearing South American juju from North by Northwest or the bird statue beneath the opening titles of The Maltese Falcon — some kind of clay
effigy pregnant with some kind of contraband, representative in 1975 of the extent to which film has been entirely co-opted by the way audience expectations govern movies.
Thek's entombed hippie, which
bore his likeness, and Hershman Leeson's equally entombed yet perversely vital
effigies of marginal women can both be understood as confronting biopower through the perspective of the counterculture and other movements that flowered (and declined) in 1960s and 1970s America.