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Blues [alt: I Have Given the World My Songs]


Blues [alt: I Have Given the World My Songs]

1947
20th century
185 x 98 mm

Elizabeth Catlett,  American, (1915–2012)

Object Type: Print
Medium and Support: Linocut on paper
Credit Line: Art Collection purchase, 1986
Accession Number: 1986.12.2
Current Location: Lauinger Library : 5 - Fifth floor : BFCSC : Stacks

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  • guitars - Plucked lutelike chordophones with built-up ribs, gently-waisted body, fretted neck, flat peg disc, rear or machine tuning pegs, frontal string holder combined with bridge, and large circular soundhole. Their size, form, and number of strings can vary.
  • music - The art concerned with the combining of vocal or instrumental sounds in measured time to communicate emotions, ideas, or states of mind, usually according to cultural standards of rhythm, melody, and, in most Western music, harmony.
  • women - Refers to female human beings from young adulthood through old age.

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