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What is the power at the center of primitive mytho-poetic life? Or even of all human life? The Primitive Prints seem guided by a question like that. They grew out of a deep, transforming insight Hodaka experienced in 1955 when he visited New York and its Museum of the American Indian and then the pre-Columbian ruins of Mexico. Between 1955 and 1963 he produced 130 prints and 20 monoprints, about one-fourth of his life work! The style is abstract - his particular type of expressionism - evoking a feeling of the energy in primitive life.
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89. Maya 1955
Woodblock 37.5 x 24.8 cm
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90. Sacrifice 1955
Woodblock 42.0 x 57.0 cm
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91. Untitled 1956?
Woodblock 41.0 x 27.3 cm
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92. Image 1956
Woodblock 40.5 x 28.0 cm
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97. Faces 1956
Woodblock 25.0 x 37.5 cm
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98. Stones and a Man-A 1956
Woodblock 35.0 x 49.0 cm
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100. Ruins 1956
Woodblock 27.7 x 40.0 cm
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101. Untitled 1956
Woodblock 32.0 x 45.0 cm
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102. Ancient People 1956
Woodblock 62.0 x 93.5 cm
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104. Crafty God 1956
Woodblock 48.8 x 34.6 cm
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107. Altar 1956
Woodblock 42.0 x 58.0
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