Poster for Public Enemy album Greatest Misses: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A poster advertising the Public Enemy album Greatest Misses. The poster features the Public Enemy logo of a figure appearing through a targeting scope with bullet holes printed on a black-and-white photographic background. [PUBLIC ENEMY] is printed at the top and [GREATEST MISSES] at the bottom, both in black with white edging.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1992
• Created by: Sony Music Entertainment, American, founded 1991
• Subject of: Public Enemy, American, founded 1982
• Type: posters
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 23 x 23 in. (58.4 x 58.4 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Hip-hop (Music)
• Topic: Rappers (Musicians)
• Object number: 2011.33.2.2
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Public Enemy
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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