Frankenstein - Jim Thorpe Art Print
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For six September nights in 1977, an American garrison on the Rhine staged Frankenstein, and this playbill told the troops where to find the door.
A skull grins in left profile inside the faint outline of a living face. The cranium is sliced open and the brain sits packed in lampblack crosshatching, each fold cut by a pen that thinks it is an engraver’s burin. Three electrodes spear the head at D, E and B. A hexagonal bolt locks the neck at numeral 5. German cursive crowds the margins in a hurried laboratory hand, the language Victor heard in his Ingolstadt lecture halls.
Mary Shelley’s Gothic novel becomes an anatomical chart here, a phrenology plate crossed with a wiring diagram and pinned up for soldiers at Taukkunen Barracks. Galvanism hums along every arrow.
Boris Karloff’s flat-topped monster of 1931 never shows up. The Worms Theatre Center got a Modern Prometheus opened in the manner of Vesalius, annotated by a nervous surgeon and monogrammed 77. In Cold War West Germany, that reads as horror with a security clearance. Pin this U.S. Army community theater print where guests will ask who signed off on the experiment.
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1. Vertical
Use the sawtooth hanger at the top middle on the back of the frame and hang it on a single screw or nail.
2. Horizontal
Hang the two sawtooth hangers on two screws or nails at the same heightPut two screws or nails in the wall at the same height, spaced the same distance apart as the two sawtooth hangers, then hang your print on them.
Framed Canvas
1. D-rings (most secure)
Screw a D-ring onto the back of the frame on the left and right, both at the same height. A ruler helps here. Then put two screws in the wall where you want your canvas, level with each other and spaced the same distance apart as the D-rings. A spirit level makes this easier. Finally, hook the D-rings onto the screws.
2. Straight onto screws
Keep it simple: put two screws in the wall at the same height and rest the inner lip at the top of the back of the frame on them.
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