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Side View Mirror
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Side View Mirror

Date1966
Label TextGlimpsed from the driver's seat in a shiny mirror, a generic, unblemished highway slides into the distance. A romantic might connect this landscape to Kerouac's novel On the Road, or consider it a precursor of the movie Easy Rider. A cultural historian might read it in terms of standardization, dehumanization, and denaturalization at work in the U.S.
Object number86.274.1
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Henry Art Gallery, "Shifting Ground: Transformed Views of the American Landscape", February 10, 2000 - August 20, 2000 Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Collection Highlights: 1945 To The Present", September 12, 1996 - June 1, 1997, (09/12/1996 - 06/01/1997)
Credit LineGift of Sidney and Anne Gerber
Dimensions6 3/4 x 4 x 4 in. (17.15 x 10.16 x 10.16 cm)
MediumScreenprint on Plexiglas with metal