I'm a sucker for a storyline involving a protagonist's
search for identity across generations and distant lands.
Not exact matches
In the books featured in this article, poets represent the struggle of enslaved peoples
for freedom, the fight of citizens
for equal rights, and the
search for personal and political
identity, all
across the span of several generations, cultural groups, and geographic locales.
Two beings
searching for their
identity travel
across a broken planet, constantly facing bloody political conflicts which tear the old colonies apart.
There's body - centered,
identity -
searching work by Hannah Wilke, Carlee Fernandez and Ana Mendieta all in a row; a nostalgic assemblage by Betye Saar right
across from an equally history - heavy sculpture by Saar's daughter, Alison; pithy, politically charged text pieces by Mel Bochner, Glenn Ligon and John Baldessari hang together in the same room as Bruce Nauman's neon pinwheel of weighty adjectives, also called Human Nature and the loosely the inspiration
for this show.