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Article: Imaging the black male. (exhibit of art reflecting African American masculinity, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY)
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- American Visions
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- October 1, 1994
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Painter Robert Colescott "is not afraid to play with stereotypical imagery in his painting as a way to critique it," says Whitney Museum of American Art curator Thelma Golden. Colescott's "George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware" is among the more than 100 works appearing in the exhibition "Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art" at the Whitney Museum.
"Black Male" chronicles the changing perceptions of African-American masculinity as interpreted by 25 artists of the 1970s, '80s and '90s, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Dawn DeDeaux, Leon Golub, Glenn Ligon, Adrian Piper, Andres Serrano, Gary Simmons, Carrie ...