Sentences with phrase «black slave portraits»

The installation «Swallow Hard: The Lancaster Dinner Series» (2007) stands out with its many porcelain plates and jugs over-painted with black slave portraits.

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Best known for large - scale interiors, landscapes, and portraits featuring powerful black figures, Marshall explores narratives of African American history from slave ships to the present and draws upon his deep knowledge of art history from the Renaissance to twentieth - century abstraction, as well as other sources such as the comic book and the muralist tradition.

A Perfect Chemistry: Photographs by Hill & Adamson, Graham Fagen: The Slave's Lament and Douglas Gordon: Black Burns at Scottish National Portrait Gallery

I don't have a great memory, but I do have total recall of a day in ’94 when I walked into her studio and saw Gothic, a portrait of a black woman that Howe confirmed was» an appropriated 19th - century painting of a Moroccan slave woman, which I put into an abstract context.»