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The Dictatorship of Swiftness, (sculpture). Artist:  Torres, Francesc, sculptor. Title:  The Dictatorship of Swiftness, (sculpture). Dates:  1986. Medium:  Mixed media video installation. Description:  A machine gun is placed upon a table in the center of a room, around it are buckets of water and a semicircle arrangement of video monitors on bases. Subject:  Allegory -- Civic -- Injustice Occupation -- Political -- Dictator Object -- Weapon -- Gun Object Type:  Sculpture Owner:  San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, 700 Prospect Street, La Jolla, California 92037 Accession Number: 87.19 Provenance:  Purchased in 1987. Remarks:  Purchased with matching funds from the National Endowment for the Arts. References:  San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, "Selections from the Permanent Collection," 1990. Illustration:  San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, "Selections from the Permanent Collection," 1990, pg. 39. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAS 02660055   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture 02660055 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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