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. If you would like to purchase this title, we recommend that you occasionally check this page to see if it has become available. Hammons's work avoids the trap of marginality by using an iconography and methodology springing from and presented within his urban African American context. Though he has made plenty of works imbued with art-historical references--works subsequently installed at the Venice Bieniele and at hip galleries--these are his marginalia instead of his crowning crossover accomplishments. Even more surprising than the artist's ability to control the spin of his work is this book's success in conveying Hammons's art in its original environment--which most readers will find alien. |
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. Subscribing to a strident moralist's conviction that never lets facts get in the way of hyperbolic eruptions, Gingrich, who has never seen the exhibit and apparently never will, said the art museum should close the exhibit. But he and other critics of the American flag art show do need to look at all 80 pieces of the exhibit and consider its work in context before they would embrace the freedom-chilling act of censorship. Thankfully, Gingrich did acknowledge that the museum has the constitutional right to show the exhibit. From our viewpoint here in plain, open sight of a controversy, not from a nearsighted view from across country, free speech and expression are as classic as American values get. |
And the combination of "body painting" and used "real" material is an unusual use of media combined to make a very specific statement. . Index Biographical Background Cultural Context Discussion Questions and Activities Elementary Middle School High School Medium References Themes Biographical Background David Hammons, originally from Springfield, Illinois, currently resides in New York. An artist of the Civil Rights Movement that protested during the 1960s and early 1970s, Hammons voices strong statements of discontent with the political, social, and economic system in America. There is an emphasis on "funk" in his work - on seeing beauty in everyday things such as human hair or used man-made objects - things not always considered beautiful on their own.
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And the combination of "body painting" and used "real" material is an unusual use of media combined to make a very specific statement. . Index Biographical Background Cultural Context Discussion Questions and Activities Elementary Middle School High School Medium References Themes Biographical Background David Hammons, originally from Springfield, Illinois, currently resides in New York. An artist of the Civil Rights Movement that protested during the 1960s and early 1970s, Hammons voices strong statements of discontent with the political, social, and economic system in America. There is an emphasis on "funk" in his work - on seeing beauty in everyday things such as human hair or used man-made objects - things not always considered beautiful on their own. |
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