Two Generals

Misch Kohn

This print, though an intaglio, is printed relief, from the surface of the plate. The lines that would read as black if printed intaglio instead read as white, creating a ghostly image like a photo negative.

Kohn cataloguer Jo Farb Hernandez comments about this image on page 210 of the raisonné:

"Two bald, mustachioed military officers, their uniforms defined by assorted mechanical parts, coins, and gauges, caucus against a black background." And, on pages 90-92,

"Kohn developed new images of military might and police power...'Two Generals' and 'Two Generals II' printed in relief as if their blackness would accentuate the potential of death they could effect, are among the most compellingly evocative images of this image.

He underscored his visual concerns by donating prints to support a variety of leftist causes, from auctions supporting the Mississippi Summer Freedom Schools to Eugene McCarthy's run for president."