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Join scholar Richard J. Powell as he rethinks the art of Cubism through the historical and aesthetic lens of African American art. Artists such as Dudley Murphy, Aaron Douglas, Jacob Lawrence, Mickalene Thomas, and Nina Chanel Abney use angular and fractured forms that resonate with the cultural effects of ragtime, jazz, hip-hop, and other Black performing arts traditions.
Richard J. Powell
July 10, 2024
January 24, 2013
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"It has all these apertures almost as if it is breathing and hearing what is around it."
Yaëlle Biro
July 17, 2013
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"As I warmed up to this work, I realized that a work can be inscrutable and you can still love it."
Ian Alteveer
March 20, 2013
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"One doesn’t tend to think of silver plates as being quite as emotionally involving."
Helen C. Evans
May 15, 2013
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"I think he looked at this with special eyes and those eyes help transform the way we look at nature."
Nonnie Frelinghuysen
June 26, 2013
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"The construction defies any usual dress-making norms."
Jan Glier Reeder
December 6, 2013
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"That infinite image creates an endless echoing, which is almost dizzying and supernatural."
Kim Benzel
September 17, 2013
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"Your perception of reality, your normal expectations of how you view things, is completely confounded."
John T. Carpenter
May 29, 2013
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"This tradition of highly decorative saddles continues uninterrupted in Tibet for at least a thousand years."
Donald J. La Rocca
August 28, 2013