Beyond the Social Pale

Copied Daniel Joseph Martinez, Beyond the Social Pale, 1996, color lithograph, 21 1⁄2 in. × 68 in. (54.6 × 172.7 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program, 1998.98A-D, © 1996, Daniel J. Martinez

Artwork Details

Title
Beyond the Social Pale
Artist
Printer
El Nopal Press
Publisher
El Nopal Press
Date
1996
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
21 1⁄2 in. × 68 in. (54.6 × 172.7 cm)
Copyright
© 1996, Daniel J. Martinez
Credit Line
Museum purchase through the Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program
Mediums Description
color lithograph
Classifications
Keywords
  • Waterscape — coast
  • Occupation — political — dictator
  • Architecture Exterior — castle
  • Object — written matter — map
Object Number
1998.98A-D
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1998.98A-D

Artwork Description

What if we could see the world anew? Daniel Joseph Martinez's four-part print conceives the US-Mexico border as a place of discovery. Martinez superimposes large arrows and postcards of beautiful destinations on a map of the region to suggest the passage of an explorer. The final panel offers another way to break with the world as we know it. It adapts text from a 1990s Gap store ad campaign that pictured famous people like Miles Davis, Andy Warhol, and Amelia Earhart wearing khakis. Rather than focus on esteemed cultured icons, Martinez names dictators and military strongmen who also wore khakis.