Untitled (TIME Portraits)

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FRANCIS NEWTON SOUZA (1924-2002)
Untitled (TIME Portraits)
signed and dated 'Souza 1970' (upper left)
chemical alteration and mixed media on printed magazine paper
10 7/8 x 8 1/8 in. (27.8 x 20.8 cm.); 10 7/8 x 8¼ in. (27.8 x 21.1 cm.) each
Executed in 1970
Group of two works on paper (2)

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'People are anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous' Schopenhauer said, but today everyone can be famous at least for a one minute exposure on [the] mass-media of television. This is not the age of the common man, but the common celebrity.
(F. N. Souza, extract from a letter to Liselotte Souza [133], 1974, unpaginated; courtesy the F. N. Souza Family Archive)