Carl Pope
b. 1961
THE BAD AIR SMELLED OF ROSES, lot of four works
2007
Letterpress on heavy cardstock (4 works)
19 x 14 inches (each)
Signed in pen by the artist

Literature: The Bad Air Smelled of Roses: Letterpress Posters by Carl Pope, Thom Pegg, Tyler Fine Art, 2014. https://blackartauction.squarespace.com/carl-pope-the-bad-air-smelled-of-roses-1.

Exhibited: The Bad Air Smelled of Roses was recently on view in the exhibition WHO RU2 DAY: Mass Media and the Fine Art Print in the Cleveland Museum of Art's James and Hanna Bartlett Prints and Drawings Gallery through March 24, 2019.

Pope's installation of letterpress posters called "The Bad Air Smelled of Roses" explores the concept of Phenomenology as seen in the writings of Martin Heidigger, a German philosopher of the early 20th century. Pope uses the medium of letterpress posters because they represent a presumptuous idea--they seem "official".

Condition
generally good condition; no tears or stains, unframed