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video and exhibit devoted to the Futurama world fair 60's at the Museum of the City of New York

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video and exhibit devoted to the Futurama world fair 60's at the Museum of the City of New York

video and exhibit devoted to the Futurama world fair 60's at the Museum of the City of New York

137/150: Mike Henry, Morning, 1995, oil on canvas. 95.11

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video and exhibit devoted to the Futurama world fair 60's at the Museum of the City of New York

video and exhibit devoted to the Futurama world fair 60's at the Museum of the City of New York

video and exhibit devoted to the Futurama world fair 60's at the Museum of the City of New York

video and exhibit devoted to the Futurama world fair 60's at the Museum of the City of New York

video and exhibit devoted to the Futurama world fair 60's at the Museum of the City of New York

in the permanent collection of the High Museum

video and exhibit devoted to the Futurama world fair 60's at the Museum of the City of New York

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video and exhibit devoted to the Futurama world fair 60's at the Museum of the City of New York

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The genesis of this sculpture involves so many elements of its time. The title would be most familiar to people around the time of its making in 1975, as the last US uniformed military members were leaving the armed conflict in Vietnam: Absent Without Leave (abandoning one's post, position, duties). Steel is so much of what armed conflict relies on for offense and defense in battle. This piece resembles a horse or ox-drawn plow blade ("weapons into plowshares"*), thus referring to the teaching about giving up killing in favor or cultivating the land and by extension the society.

Isaiah 2:4, "They will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks."

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112/150: Capper publications: Household magazine, 1936

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135/150: Topeka Trivia Book Volume I