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| Katharina Fritsch Brain 1987 plaster Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
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| Tina Barney Jill and Polly in the Bathroom 1987 C-print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Charles Bechtle Sea Storm 1987 watercolor on paper Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine |
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| Ken Kelly Secret Blood 1987 oil on canvas Seattle Art Museum |
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| Richard Misrach Bomb Crater (Pink) - Bravo 20 Bombing Range, Nevada 1987 C-print Akron Art Museum, Ohio |
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| David Bates The Dock Builder 1987 oil on canvas Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington |
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| Theophilus Brown Untitled (Industrial Cityscape) 1987 acrylic on canvas Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento |
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| Richard Diebenkorn Blue with Red 1987 color woodblock print McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas |
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| John Fraser H.O. (Home Office) 1987 collage on paper McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas |
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| Vernon Fisher Study for the Construction of Oranges (Parachute) 1987 mixed media on paper Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Margaret Ponce Israel Lidded Vessel 1987 painted and glazed whiteware Racine Art Museum, Wisconsin |
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| James Hayward Spartan 1987 oil paint and wax on canvas San Jose Museum of Art, California |
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| Michael Kenna Sand Mounds, Kyoto 1987 gelatin silver print San Diego Museum of Art |
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| Kyle Highsmith Crepe Myrtle, Hot Sunday 1987 oil on canvas North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
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| Anonymous Spanish Photographer Punks 1987 gelatin silver print San Diego Museum of Art |
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| Marsha Burns Alessandro, Rome 1987 gelatin silver print Dallas Museum of Art |
Fleet Visit
The sailors come ashore
Out of their hollow ships,
Mild-looking middle-class boys
Who read the comic strips;
One baseball game is more
To them than fifty Troys.
They look a bit lost, set down
In this unamerican place
Where natives pass with laws
And futures of their own;
They are not here because
But only just-in-case.
The whore and ne'er-do-well
Who pester them with junk
In their grubby ways at least
Are serving the social Beast;
They neither make nor sell –
No wonder they get drunk.
But their ships on the vehement blue
Of this harbor actually gain
From having nothing to do;
Without a human will
To tell them whom to kill
Their structures are humane
And, far from looking lost,
Look as if they were meant
To be pure abstract design
By some master of pattern and line,
Certainly worth every cent
Of the billions they must have cost.
– W.H. Auden (1951)