Los Desaparecidos (The Disappeared)

Antonio Frasconi · Printed 1981-84; published 1984

This is Los Desaparecidos — The Disappeared — a book of twenty-one woodcuts and three photocopy transfers, printed by Antonio Frasconi between nineteen eighty-one and nineteen eighty-four. He was born in Uruguay, and made it while the military governments of the Southern Cone were making people vanish.

Medium Illustrated book with twenty-one woodcuts and three photocopy transfers · Dimensions book (closed): 21 3/4 × 15 × 11/16" (55.2 × 38.1 × 1.7 cm); page (each): 21 3/8 × 14 3/4" (54.3 × 37.4 cm) · Credit Ralph E. Shikes Fund

Hanging beside it in Gallery 420: Torso, III, Untitled

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: The Impossible, III, Retrospective Bust of a Woman, Caryatid, Reclining Nude with Guitar, Woman at the Piano, Spoon Woman