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Know Art: From "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to Picasso: Race & the Birth of Modern Art

Event Type: Adult Program
Age Group(s): Adult, All Ages
Date: 1/13/2015
Start Time: 6:00 PM
End Time: 7:15 PM
Description:
 In 1992, Toni Morrison published a little book entitled "Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination." It is a book motivated by her sense that “the major and championed characteristics of our national literature . . .[are] in fact responses to a dark, abiding, signing Africanist presence.” In this talk, art author and professor Henry Sayre argues that this same “dark, abiding, signing Africanist presence” lies likewise at the roots of modern art, in Manet’s "Olympia," Degas’ "A Cotton Office in New Orleans," and Picasso’s "Les Demoiselles d’Avignon."



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Library: Downtown Bend Public Library
Location: Brooks Room
Contact: Tina Walker Davis
Contact Number: 541-312-1034
Presenter: Henry Sayre