Joshua Norton (artist)
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Joshua Norton | |
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| Born | December 10, 1976 |
| Occupation(s) | Artist, designer |
| Known for | Die! Akhnaten Die! |
Joshua Norton (born December 10, 1976) is an American artist, print maker, and designer. Norton is most well known for creating intensely colored woodcut prints (occasionally combining them with digital)[1] and his graphic poster design.[2][3] Born in Minnesota, he earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Stout in 2001, and his Master of Fine Arts at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2009. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Finland, the UK and beyond.
Norton's work, Die! Akhnaten Die! is a series of 20 large scale sequential woodcut prints that are loosely based on the power struggle between the 'heretic' Pharaoh Akhenaten, and the polytheistic priests of Egypt.[2] The story is told not as an Egyptian tale, but as a Wild West cowboy tale, in order to draw attention to the underlying theme instead of specific characters. This work was published as a paperback book in April 2009.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ http://printeresting.org/
- ^ a b "Artist's poster passion carries into MFA exhibit". 7 April 2009.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-02-14. Retrieved 2009-04-21.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ http://www.dailynebraskan.com/features/masters-theses-highlight-sex-nature-power-through-art-1.1643979[permanent dead link]
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