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Michael Wilson, Charles Giteau, 2007 |
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CHARLES GITEAU BY KELLY HARRELL, 1927 REMIX: MICHAEL WILSON, CHARLES GITEAU, 2007 The Garfield assassination inspired a number of ballads. These broadside ballads and others like them were based on recent events and sold on printed sheets. Garfield was shot on 2nd July 1881 in a Washington railway station by “a disappointed officer seeker” Charles Giteau. Wilson has created a text-based work in black glitter using Harry Smith’s liner notes description for this song, “Assassin of President Garfield recalls exploit in scaffold peroration.” Michael Wilson is an editor, writer, and artist from London, presently based in New York. He maintains the weblog Arizona Paint Job. |
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