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Removable poster from Alex Shear’s Object Lesson #3

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Esopus 3 (Fall 2004)
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Alex Shear’s Object Lesson #3

By Alex Shear

For Esopus 3, regular contributor Alex Shear offers a single object, reproduced on a 17" x 22" removable poster, which wrily references the perils of living in a nuclear age.

Alex Shear has compiled a collection of over 100,000 20th-century pop-culture artifacts in his apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. In the ‘70s, Shear was a highly successful designer of housewares and clothing; since 1990, he has focused exclusively on acquisition, and objects from his collection have been featured in exhibitions at Manhattan’s Children’s Museum and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, among others.