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Article: Ellen Gallagher. (Reviews).(Critical Essay)(Brief Article)
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- June 22, 2002
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DRAWING CENTER
Blubber lips, hot-dog lips, Sambo lips. They used to call them "nigger lips" in the South (and probably still do)--just writing the words brings back the pain of racism that's pervasive and in your face. Now, ironically, white people have their lips injected full of collagen to get that big-lip look; think of Angelina Jolie's "pillow lips." There's a whole lot of bite in the difference between "nigger lips" and "pillow lips," one an epithet of derision, the other of desirability. The defacing racial stereotypes of the Jim Crow South don't stop, of course, with cartoon renderings of bulbous lips, protruding eyes, and wild hair, but extend to tales ...
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Article: Ellen Gallagher
Artforum;
July 1, 2002 ;
700+ words
...NEW YORK DRAWING CENTER Blubber lips, hot ... appetite to match. Ellen Gallagher, like a number of other ... Moines Art Center (the Drawing Center is the final stop) consisting ... Preserver, which lists Gallagher as editor in chief ...
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