AIDS Series / Geisha and Ghost Cat
Masami Teraoka, Japanese, born 1936
1989-2002
Aquatint and sugar lift etching, spit bite, and direct gravure, printed from six copper plates in seventeen colors on handmade Sekishu Kozo paper
6/35
Overall: 27 1/2 × 19 13/16 in. (69.9 × 50.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through a gift from William Sleznick, by exchange
PR.2003.8
Geography
Place Made: Japan, East Asia, Asia
Period
21st century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and inscribed, on reverse, in graphite, bottom edge: 6/35 Masami Teraoka 1989-2002; Text: Couple: "Oh my! Suddenly an awesome ghost has appeared!!; Geisha: "Love, hurry up and put the condom on!!!! Please be careful, love, if you get snatched up by the ghost cat you are history--it will be the end of life."
Course History
ANTH 50, COCO 2, HIV/AIDS Through a Biosocial Lens: 30 Years of a Modern Plague, Sienna Craig, Timothy Lahey, Spring 2013
SART 27, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Louise Hamlin, Spring 2012
SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2013
SART 27, SART 28, SART 74, Printmaking I, II, III, Louise Hamlin, Spring 2013
FREN 7, French Graphic Novels, Annabelle Cone, Spring 2013
ENVS 80, Writing Our Way Home: The Writing That Sustains Us, Terry Tempest Williams, Spring 2013
SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2012
SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I-Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2014
WRIT 5, Poor Taste, William Boyer, Winter 2014
SART 27, SART 28, SART 74, Printmaking I, Printmaking II, Printmaking III, Louise Hamlin, Spring 2014
WRIT 5, On Poor Taste, William Boyer, Winter 2015
COCO 2.3, ANTH 50.6, HIV/AIDS Through a Bio-social Lens: Thirty Years of a Modern Plague, Sienna Craig, Timothy Lahey, Spring 2015
GEOG 17, Geopolitics and Third World Development, Patricia Lopez, Spring 2015
GEOG 17, Geopolitics and Third World Development, Patricia Lopez, Spring 2015
ANTH 3, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Spring 2019
SART 31, Painting II, Thomas Ferrara, Spring 2019
ANTH 3.01, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Fall 2019
ANTH 3.02, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland 2, Fall 2019
ANTH 55, Anthropology of Global Health, Anne Sosin, Spring 2021
GEOG 11.01, Qualitative Methods, Abigail Neely, Winter 2022
ANTH 55.01, Anthropology of Global Health, Anne Sosin, Spring 2022
ANTH 55.01, Anthropology of Global Health, Anne Sosin, Spring 2022
ANTH 55.01, Anthropology of Global Health, Anne Sosin, Spring 2022
GEOG 80.10, COVID-19, Abby Neely, Spring 2022
ANTH 55.01, Anthropology of Global Health, Anne Sosin, Fall 2022
GEOG 11.01, Qualitative Methods, Abigail Neely, Fall 2022
Comparative Literature 49.09/English 53.49, Graphic Medicine, Michael Chaney, Winter 2023
Anthropology 55.01, Anthropology of Global Health, Anne Sosin, Spring 2023
Exhibition History
Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 15-May 20, 2003.
Constructing Gender: Works from the Hood Museum of Art's Collection, 1500 to the Present, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, ARTH 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 28-April 22, 2012.
Global Flows, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, Massachusetts, September 6-November 18, 2012.
No Laughing Matter: Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality, and Ethnicity, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, in conjunction with the Humanities Institute, Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 6-December 9, 2007.
Word and Image in Contemporary Art, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 26-August 4, 2013.
Publication History
John R. Stomberg, The Hood Now: Art and Inquiry at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2019, p. 186, ill. plate no. 117.
Provenance
Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California; sold to present collection, 2003.
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