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.... In this context of radical, modernist New Negro artistic foment, Lewis's engagement with the bold physicality of a Dan mask reveals the challenges that Black modernists of his generation faced when it came to choosing subject matter and employing formal strategies. modern sculpture drawing African art ...

...” politics of racial uplift were ascendant, are evident in her work, little of which survives. This essay examines Howard Jackson's place in a segment of a conservative Black art world that is today largely forgotten or ignored. sculpture colorism racism gender class ...

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... The epilogue offers a meditation on an exhibit featuring an early twentieth-century fish-gutting machine called the “Iron Chink” that personifies a racist slur. Artist Tommy Ting’s reanimation of the Iron Chink in his 2012 sculpture Machine (Iron Chink, invented in 1903, found at the Gulf...

...Terran Deities<subtitle>Oil, Fires, Fevers</subtitle> Part 3 brings ancient deities of fires, oil, and fevers into contemporary discussions of climate change. It centers the works of the Iranian American artist Morehshin Allahyari, whose sculptures replicate ancient deities—some of which have...

... Moving from public artwork in Germany to a monumental work in China, this chapter begins with Cai Guo-Qiang’s reworking of a model revolutionary sculpture of the Cultural Revolution period called the Rent Collection Courtyard ( RCC ). While the original RCC told the story of peasant class...

... 1960s, with his large-scale welded steel sculpture. Through Betye Saar we consider the large local group show as well as the role of printmaking as tactics to craft success for women artists. printmaking welded metal sculpture Betye Saar Charles White Melvin Edwards ...

... Chapter 2 traces the practices of installation and assemblage by John Outterbridge, Noah Purifoy, and Betye Saar. They all shared the aesthetics of reuse in their sculptural concatenations. Purifoy and Outterbridge embedded their artmaking in community engagement and urban public space...

...” and the “Talented Tenth” politics of racial uplift were ascendant, are evident in her work, little of which survives. This essay examines Howard Jackson's place in a segment of a conservative Black art world that is today largely forgotten or ignored. sculpture colorism racism gender class Sargent...

...Reconstructions Moving from public artwork in Germany to a monumental work in China, this chapter begins with Cai Guo-Qiang’s reworking of a model revolutionary sculpture of the Cultural Revolution period called the Rent Collection Courtyard ( RCC ). While the original RCC told the story...