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Gyorgy Kepes, A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance, 1952, gouache and pencil on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America, 1984.124.156
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- Title
- A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong…For neither in war nor yet at law ought I or any man to use every means of escaping death …The difficulty, my friends, is not to avoid death, but to avoid unrighteousness…Wherefore, O judges, be of good cheer about death, and know of a certainty that no evil can happen to a good man in life or after death. –Socrates on doing right or wrong. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
- Artist
- Date
- 1952
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- sheet: 16 x 11 7⁄8 in. (40.7 x 30.1 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Container Corporation of America
- Mediums Description
- gouache and pencil on paperboard
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- Object Number
- 1984.124.156