Chapter 1. “More Than a One-Liner”

Powell, Richard J.

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Description: Going There: Black Visual Satire

~In a 1992 review of artist Archibald J. Motley, Jr.’s first major retrospective exhibition, New York Times art critic Michael Kimmelman acknowledged his struggles with understanding Motley’s approach to representing African Americans. “It’s difficult to get a...

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Richard J. Powell

PublisherYale University Press

PublisherHutchins Center for African & African American Research

Related print edition pages: pp.1-51

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00221.002

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20669

Chapter subject tags:Satire in artBlacks--Race identityPolitical cartoonsStereotypes (Social psychology) in artRacism in artAfrican American artists

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