Peter Saul
United States, born 1934 Politics, 1985
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Gift of Don, Joyce, and Josh Omer, 1989.0024
In identifying a means for his social criticism, Peter Saul has cultivated what we might call an aesthetic of nausea. He makes calculated use of the ugly and the repulsive in his criticism of the aspects of American culture he seeks to criticize, in this case, the presidency of Ronald Reagan.