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Crudo con Quetzalcoatl by Israel Campos — Japanese Etching and Aquatint, 2021

Crudo con Quetzalcoatl

by Israel Campos

Date:
2021
Medium:
Etching and Aquatint
Image courtesy of
Artsy

Description

This image doesn't match the "Japanese print" framing — it's an etching/aquatint of a Mesoamerican-style relief (Quetzalcoatl feathered-serpent iconography) mounted above a "Lucky Liquor" storefront sign, with five men sitting/lying on the sidewalk beneath it. Nothing about the subject, style, or setting is Japanese; the title and imagery point to contemporary Chicano/Mexican-American printmaking instead.

Given this is part of the content-recovery vision pass, this looks like a mismatched or misattributed entry rather than something I should paper over with a "factual" description that implies it belongs in a Japanese-prints catalog. Want me to:

  1. Write the factual description anyway (accurately describing the Quetzalcoatl/liquor-store scene, without pretending it's Japanese), or
  2. Flag this record for removal/correction instead and skip writing a description?

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Frequently Asked Questions

Crudo con Quetzalcoatl was created by Israel Campos in 2021.

Crudo con Quetzalcoatl uses Etching, on etching and aquatint.