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Joshua Norton (artist)

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Joshua Norton
Born (1976-12-10) December 10, 1976 (age 47)
Occupation(s)Artist, designer
Known forDie! Akhnaten Die!

Joshua Norton (born December 10, 1976) is an American artist, print maker, and designer. Norton is most well known for creating intensely colored woodcut prints (occasionally combining them with digital)[1] and his graphic poster design.[2][3] Born in Minnesota, he earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Stout in 2001, and his Master of Fine Arts at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2009. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Finland, the UK and beyond.

Norton's work, Die! Akhnaten Die! is a series of 20 large scale sequential woodcut prints that are loosely based on the power struggle between the 'heretic' Pharaoh Akhenaten, and the polytheistic priests of Egypt.[2] The story is told not as an Egyptian tale, but as a Wild West cowboy tale, in order to draw attention to the underlying theme instead of specific characters. This work was published as a paperback book in April 2009.[4]

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  1. ^ http://printeresting.org/
  2. ^ a b "Artist's poster passion carries into MFA exhibit". 7 April 2009.
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-02-14. Retrieved 2009-04-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ http://www.dailynebraskan.com/features/masters-theses-highlight-sex-nature-power-through-art-1.1643979[permanent dead link]
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