A strong relationship between the arts and politics, particularly between various kinds of art and power, occurs across historical epochs and cultures. As they respond to contemporaneous events and politics, …
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Art Trumps Politics
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Dread Scott vs Dred Scott
Dred Scott Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847. Ten years later, after a decade of appeals and court reversals, his case was finally …
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This flag once protested lynching. Now it’s Dread Scott’s response to police violence
Source: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/this-flag-once-protested-lynching-now-its-an-artists-response-to-police-violence/ BY CORINNE SEGAL July 10, 2016 at 1:09 PM EDT “A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday,” a piece by artist Dread Scott, based on an NAACP banner, appears …
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Jacob Lawrence Migration Series
The Migration Series In 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just twenty-three years old, completed a series of sixty paintings about the Great Migration, the mass movement of African Americans from the …
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