Sentences with phrase «teenager lynched»

Dana Schutz's painting «Open Casket,» showing the mutilated corpse of Emmett Till, an African - American teenager lynched in Mississippi in 1955, is on display at the Whitney Biennial in New York.

The controversy of Dana Schutz painting Open Casket, which depicts Emmett Till — the black teenager lynched half a century ago after a white woman said he had flirted with her — begs the question: can making art be «a form of concern», immune to cries of cultural appropriation?

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One man was dragged from a jail cell and lynched on the town square, two teenagers were hung after a one - day trial, and soon bands of white «night riders» launched a coordinated campaign of arson and terror, driving all 1,098 black citizens out of the county.

Open Casket, an abstract work, refers to the funeral of black teenager Emmett Till, who was murdered by a lynch mob in Mississippi in 1955.

In March, a small group of protesters blocked Dana Schutz's painting in the Whitney Biennial based on open - coffin photographs of the mutilated body of Till, the teenager who was lynched by two white men in Mississippi in 1955.

Schutz, who is white, employs expressionistic brushstrokes to depict the disfigured face of black teenager Emmett Till, whose 1955 lynching was a pivotal precursor to the Civil Rights Movement.

Dana Schutz depicted the open casket of Emmett Till, building the lynched black teenager's face up with paint and then gashing it on the canvas, and Henry Taylor painted the death of Philando Castile at the hands of police officer.