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| Bernd and Hilla Becher Coal Bunker 1978 gelatin silver print Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Bernd and Hilla Becher Coal Bunker 1978 gelatin silver print Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Bernd and Hilla Becher Coal Bunker 1978 gelatin silver print Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Harry Callahan New York 1978 dye imbibition print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Christo (Christo Javacheff) Wrapped Walk-Ways 1978 collage, crayon, charcoal and graphite on paper Akron Art Museum, Ohio |
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| Corneille (Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo) L'Oiseau Papillon 1978 lithograph NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
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| David Lance Goines New Year's Greetings 1978 lithograph Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| David Hockney On the Banks of the Nile, Luxor, Egypt 1978 gelatin silver print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Max Kozloff Portrait of artist Kate Manheim 1978 C-print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Roy Lichtenstein Bright Night 1978 lithograph Wichita Art Museum, Kansas |
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| Robert Mangold A Curved Diagonal within Two Distorted Rectangles 1978 acrylic on canvas Menil Collection, Houston |
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| Marisol (Marisol Escobar) Untitled 1978 lithograph Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington |
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| Robert Motherwell Dance III 1978 lithograph San Jose Museum of Art, California |
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| Alice Neel Margaret Evans, Pregnant 1978 oil on canvas Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston |
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| Lucas Samaras Sitting 1978 dye diffusion print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Lucas Samaras Still Life 1978 dye diffusion print Art Institute of Chicago |
from Precious Five
Be civil, hands, on you
Although you cannot read
Is written what you do
And blows you struck so blindly
In temper or in greed,
Your tricks of long ago,
Eyes, kindly or unkindly,
Unknown to you will know.
Revere those hairy wrists
And leg-of-mutton fists
Which pulverized the trolls
And carved deep Donts in stone,
Great hands which under knolls
Are now disjointed bones,
But what has been has been;
A tight arthritic claw
Or aldermanic paw
Waving about in praise
Of those homeric days
Is impious and obscene:
Grow, hands, into those living
Hands which true hands should be
By making and by giving
To hands you cannot see.
– W.H. Auden (1950)