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Artist:
Bill Czappa
Title:
Alleged Allegations
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Year:
2004
Medium:
Size - (USA):
32 W x 63 H x 32 D (inches)
Size - (metric):
81.3 W x 160.0 H x 81.3 D (centimeters)
Theme:
Edition:
Original
Artwork ID:
628768
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Artwork Description:
It is called “Alleged Allegations” and is full of icons about our legal system. The news paper article on the top reads,
The situation presented by the plaintiffs’ attorneys did merit an investigation contingent upon testification by defendants who allegedly alligated that the contingent witnesses, who allegedly investigated the contingents’ testification, found those allegations to be based on alleged untruths, since further investigation by the plaintiffs uncovered testification which was allegedly alligated to be fabricated and generally contrived.
It was later alleged that the judge was overheard telling his clerks that he thought everyone involved was “lying like hell.”
The article was written by me and that was what gave me the idea for the piece. All the figures make some comment about our legal system from the clock, taking time, to the dice indicating you never know how it will turn out. In the scales of justice is a taco and a chicken meaning sometimes the mater is not really that important.
