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Defence Environment
Presented by Professor Akumal Ramachander 1985
architecture
cloud
destruction
ecology
emotions, concepts and ideas
inscriptions
landscape
landscape - non-specific
natural phenomena
number
pollution
smoke
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paper print lithograph
Defence of the Environment
image: 482 × 766 mm
Presented by Professor Akumal Ramachander 1985
<strong>Kazimierz Makowski</strong> born 1951
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<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/makowski-defence-of-the-environment-p11086" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P11086</span></a> <strong>Defence of the Environment</strong> 1983
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Lithograph 482 x 766 (19 x 30 1/8) on paper 619 x 860 (24 3/8 x 33 7/8); printer unknown, publisher unknown, not editioned<br/>
Inscribed 'CYKL "OCHRONA SRODOWISKA" [...]' below image b.l. 'K. Makowski' below image b.r., and 'Litografia [...]' below image bottom centre<br/>
Presented by Professor Akumal Ramachander 1985
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The shafts radiating from the top centre are full of small details giving the impression of apocalyptic stirrings. A mass of detail is enshrouded by cloud-like forms as the top of the image. At the top left are two interlocking spheres. A scroll wrapped around the bigger of the two reads 'Goliat'.
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<strong>Published in:</strong><br/>
<em>The Tate Gallery 1984-86: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions Including Supplement to Catalogue of Acquisitions 1982-84</em>, Tate Gallery, London 1988, p.412

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architecture cloud destruction ecology emotions, concepts and ideas inscriptions landscape landscape - non-specific natural phenomena number pollution smoke social comment society symbols and personifications townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features universal concepts weather