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Kerry James Marshall

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When you go to an art museum, the thing you’re least likely to encounter is a picture of a black person. When it comes to ideas about art and about beauty, the black figure is absent.

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In Western Catholicism, darkness was evil. In the colonial and imperial context, dark skin was always weak, powerless, subjugated. If you see these images all the time, they become commonplace, and they no longer become a spectacular or sensational thing.

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Clarity is important. Part of what I’m trying to do with some of these pictures is eliminate as much of the potential, as many kind of readings as people might want to make, as possible.

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May 4, 2024

Clarity is important. Part of what I’m trying to do with some of these pictures is eliminate as much of the potential, as many kind of readings as people might want to make, as possible.

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May 4, 2024

In Western Catholicism, darkness was evil. In the colonial and imperial context, dark skin was always weak, powerless, subjugated. If you see these images all the time, they become commonplace, and they no longer become a spectacular or sensational thing.

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