{"id":7,"count":9,"description":"In 1979, Philadelphia artist Sam Maitin (1928\u20132004) told an interviewer that \u201cas the world got worse, [his] colors got brighter and brighter.\u201d Rather than becoming \u201can illustrator of [the world\u2019s] agony,\u201d he used vibrant inks to push back against the darkness and instead \u201cseek out the delightful in life.\u201d Maitin\u2019s work still addresses serious issues, such as war and discrimination, but the bright colors he employed imbue each piece with an unquenchable hope. For Maitin, that hope came through connection. In these prints, Maitin engages in lively conversation with other artists by incorporating lines from poets of the 17th through the 20th century. The four cases in this gallery each pull a hue from Maitin\u2019s palette to enliven and unify related archival objects. No one color jockeys for prominence in his prints; each is equally brilliant and works with the others to create harmony, prompting his audience to do the same.","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/maitinprints\/section\/prints\/","name":"The Poetry Prints","slug":"prints","taxonomy":"section","parent":0,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/maitinprints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/section\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/maitinprints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/section"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/maitinprints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/section"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/maitinprints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item?section=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}