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Article: Kerry James Marshall at the Museum of Contemporary Art.(Critical Essay)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- October 1, 2004
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In "One True Thing: Meditations of Black Aesthetics," Kerry James Marshall's first major exhibition since 1998, the artist reclaimed the notion of a black esthetic, an artistic and political strategy born out of the Black Arts movement of the 1960s and '70s. Marshall invested his diverse works--including painting, drawing, photography, video, sculpture and installation--with visual motifs and narratives derived from contemporary black experience and its African legacy.
In lieu of the standard mid-career survey, Marshall opted for something more improvisational, as suggested by the photographic installation The Art of Hanging Pictures (2002), in which a portrait ...
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Article: KERRY JAMES MARSHALL.(Review)(Brief Article)
Black Issues Book Review;
January 1, 2001 ;
654 words
...KERRY JAMES MARSHALL Kerry James Marshall, Terrie Sultan, Arthur Jafa Abrams Publishing, November ... 29.95, ISBN 0-810-93527-9 When you stand before a Kerry James Marshall painting, with or without previous knowledge of the ...
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