Shepard Fairey, Ming

Shepard Fairey, Ming
Artist: Shepard Fairey 
Title: Ming
Medium: Screenprint
Edition: 100
Size: 18"x24"
Year: 1998
Markings: Signed & Numbered
This image was based on the Flash Gordon character, Ming the Merciless. From Supply and Demand, pg. 131: The subject of this image was often mistaken as Anton LaVey, the founder of the Church of Satan, perhaps just because it seems so sinister. Ming the Merciless was a character from the Flash Gordon comics during the ‘30s, a period when there was a lot of paranoia about communism in China. It seems like world politics often dictate what the villains look like in the entertainment media. It’s another example of the use of symbols to manipulate people, in this instance to generate fear.
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04/24/08 $1,107.50 eBay

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