Betye Saar : extending the frozen moment / essays by James Christen Steward ... et al.
Object Details
- Author
- Saar, Betye
- Steward, James Christen
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Norton Museum of Art
- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
- Subject
- Saar, Betye
- Published in conjunction with the exhibition Betye Saar: extending the frozen moment, held at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Oct. 15, 2005-Jan. 8, 2006; at the Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, Florida, Mar. 18-June 11, 2006; and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Sept. 8-Dec. 3, 2006.
- Contents
- Acknowledgments / James Christen Steward -- Artist's statement / Betye Saar -- "Lest we forget": the liberating art of Betye Saar / James Christen Steward -- Looks and gazes: photographic fragmentation and the found object / Deborah Willis -- To/from Los Angeles with Betye Saar / Kellie Jones -- Reverencing the mortal: assemblage art as prophetic protest in post-World Warr II California / Richard Cándida Smith -- From frozen moment to spectator participation: assemblage and installation in the oeuvre of Betye Saar / Lowery Stokes Sims -- Plates and catalogue entries / Sean M. Ulmer, Katharine Derosier Weiss -- Mysticism -- Ancestry and ritual -- Racial imagery and stereotypes -- Nostalgia and memory -- Aunt Hattie -- Colored -- Notes to the catalogue entries -- Artist's chronology -- Selected bibliography -- Index -- Photo credits
- 2005
- C2005
- Type
- Books
- Exhibitions
- Physical description
- 176 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 31 cm
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Record ID
- siris_sil_780876
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
