Amendment+No+8

Date: 2014
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/2015/2015.34_1a.jpg?itok=wDRtTq0w width="440" height="353" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/amendment-8-109468"]] || Title: **Amendment #8**

Artist: **Mark Bradford** Born: Los Angeles, CA 1961

Dimensions: 48 1/4 × 68 1/8 in. (122.6 × 173.0 cm) Medium: mixed media Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of the Lohrfink Foundation and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment Copyright © 2014, Mark Bradford Accession: 2015.34 || The text of the eighth amendment to the U.S. Constitution is buried under layers of brightly colored paper. This amendment, one of the ten collectively known as the Bill of Rights, protects Americans from excessive fines and bail, as well as "cruel and unusual punishment." Mark Bradford invokes the amendment's protective words, only to render them illegible.
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Meet the Artist: Mark Bradford Eighth Amendment Wiki Entry America's Founding Documents - National Archives Interactive Constitution - National Constitution Center
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