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Photogravure
Burt Barr’s photogravure The Gun and The Dog is a visually arresting comment on culture, dead serious but cartoonish and satirical as well. The pistol and the maw of the dog are a double-barreled threat pointing directly at the viewer. The black and white images, resembling magazine or billboard advertising, evoke the hair-trigger violence of American culture and its slick, packaged veneer in the mass media. The human figure, in pin stripes, is wreathed in smoke that could come from the just-fired gun or perhaps from a cigarette, while the smiling dog seems ready to lunge with its very white, very clean fangs.
