Article: Kerry James Marshall at the Museum of Contemporary Art.(Critical Essay)

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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