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Context: Social, Political, Cultural, Economic
Dr. Jordana Moore Saggese, Identity Politics: From the Margins to the Mainstream, in Smarthistory, August 9, 2015
more on Mona Hatoum
Mona Hatoum, Centre Pompidou/Kiasma, 2016
Mona Hatoum, Pretense, Tate, 1996
"Among the photographs she selected were daguerreotypes commissioned in 1850 by Swiss naturalist Louis Agassiz, who traveled through the American South with a photographer, making portraits of slaves. Agassiz intended to use these portraits as visual evidence to support his theories of the racial inferiority of Africans, and to prepare a taxonomy of physical types in the slave population." MoMA
more on Carrie Mae Weems
Zoe Lescaze, Eight Artist's on the Influence of Carrie Mae Weems, New York Times, 2018
Art Term: Deconstructivist Architecture
"These explorations highlight the perspectives of a post-Civil Rights movement generation, a generation fighting for visibility, without oversimplifying what it means to embrace one’s culture while remaining at odds with tradition." Rachel Morillo, HyperAllergic, April 6, 2021
Art Term: Political Pop
more on Bill Viola
Bill Viola, Clip of The Greeting, 1995 (27 seconds)
Bill Viola, The Messenger, 1995
more on Pipillotti Rist
Rist influence on Beyonce Knowles, Hold Up, Lemonade, 2016
Rose Aidin, The YBAs: The London-based Young British Artists, in Smarthistory, September 7, 2018