"None So Blind ..."

Publisher WPA

1937–41

Not on view

Vogel created this print after returning from fighting in the Spanish Civil War (1936–39), during which he witnessed the horrors of the conflict firsthand. Vogel’s title, "None So Blind. . . ," uses disability as a metaphor to suggest that those in charge of society fail to see the widespread suffering that war produces. However, by equating blindness with a failure of political imagination, the artist linked a physical condition to a conceptual shortcoming. By presenting the title as a quotation, Vogel may have been distancing himself from this negative metaphor while still relying on its familiarity.

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Title: "None So Blind ..."
Artist: Joseph Vogel (American, 1911–1995)
Publisher: WPA
Date: 1937–41
Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions: sheet: 14 1/2 x 20 in. (36.8 x 50.8 cm)
image: 10 7/8 x 17 in. (27.7 x 43.2 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of the Work Projects Administration, New York, 1943
Object Number: 43.33.1141
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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