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Alex Shear's Object Lesson #3 (Removable Poster) Alex Shear’s past contributions to the magazine have included his collection of soda bottles “paying homage” to the original 7-Up logo (Issue #1) and a dizzying range of items (from children’s toothbrushes to hair dryers) shaped like guns (Issue #2). For Esopus #3, Shear offers a single object, reproduced on a 17”x22” removable poster, which references the Three Mile Island nuclear accident of 1979. Over the past 30 years, Alex Shear has amassed a collection of over 100,000 20th-century pop-culture artifacts. 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 other venues.
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Esopus 3 (Fall 2004)
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