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Kurs: Specjalne zagadnienia z historii sztuki > Rozdział 1
Lekcja 3: Polityka i władza- Majority to minority and back again
- Ostentatious Plainness: Copley's portrait of the Mifflins
- Ostentatious plainness, Copley’s portrait of the Mifflins: learning resources
- Face to face with the voters: Bingham's Country Politician
- Face to face with the voters, Bingham's Country Politician: learning resources
- Snakes and petticoats? Making sense of politics at the end of the Civil War
- Snakes and petticoats? Making sense of politics at the end of the Civil War: learning resources
- Custer's Last Stand — from the Lakota perspective
- Custer's Last Stand — from the Lakota perspective: learning resources
- An artifact of racism: a Connecticut Klan robe
- An artifact of racism, a Connecticut Klan robe: learning resources
- Horace Pippin's Mr. Prejudice
- Horace Pippin's Mr. Prejudice: learning resources
- A brutal history told for a modern city, Diego Rivera's Sugar Cane
- A brutal history told for a modern city, Diego Rivera's Sugar Cane: learning resources
- Making an icon: JFK and the power of media
- Making an icon, JFK and the power of media: learning resources
- Homage to JFK: Rauschenberg's Retroactive I
- Homage to JFK, Rauschenberg's Retroactive I: learning resources
- An unflinching memorial to civil rights martyrs, Thornton Dial's Blood and Meat
- An unflinching memorial to Civil Rights martyrs, Thornton Dial’s Blood and Meat: learning resources
- Titus Kaphar, The Cost of Removal
- Titus Kaphar, The Cost of Removal: learning resources
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An unflinching memorial to Civil Rights martyrs, Thornton Dial’s Blood and Meat: learning resources
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- Under discriminatory Jim Crow laws, freed slaves had few options in the post-Civil War, agrarian South. Many became sharecroppers, entering into agreements that were little more than forced labor. Sharecroppers were at the mercy of the landlord’s recordkeeping, which left them frequently in heavy debt and subject to arrest if they attempted to leave their leased land. Sharecropping remained a widespread practice until the Great Depression of the 1930s.
- Thornton Dial combines multiple levels of meaning in this painted assemblage, which references the dangerous path taken by Civil Rights activists. The use of unraveled rope carpets evokes his childhood poverty, but also images of bondage and lynching. The tiger and the faces that are hidden throughout the work reference Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, Robert Kennedy, President John F. Kennedy, Emmett Till, and others. His goal is to confront the viewer with this history and remind us that these issues still need to be addressed in today’s world.
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Learn more about Thornton Dial and watch a documentary about him
Do przemyślenia
In the video, the speakers describe Dial’s painting as “visceral.” What does this word mean and how do you see it applying to this work of art? Consider the visual and emotional impact of the Dial’s imagery, materials, and even the title Blood and Meat: Survival for the World. Why might Dial—and other artists recounting African-American history in the U.S.—want to evoke ideas of the visceral in their work?
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