What Would You Post If I Were Murdered By The Police?

2020

Not on view

A prolific letterpress artist, Kennedy wields the centuries-old technique to create prints featuring aphorisms, proverbs, and phrases that comment on current sociopolitical events. This print is part of a pair (along with TR.88.2.2021) that challenges us to imagine being confronted with difficult questions that magnify an increasingly common tendency: the posting of footage of fatal police shootings of people of color onto social media platforms.

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Title: What Would You Post If I Were Murdered By The Police?
Artist: Amos Kennedy (American, born Lafayette, Louisiana, 1948)
Date: 2020
Medium: Letterpress
Dimensions: Sheet: 20 × 15 in. (50.8 × 38.1 cm)
Classification: Posters
Credit Line: Gift of Nappy-negroes in art, 2020
Object Number: 2021.149.3
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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