Know Art: From "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to Picasso: Race & the Birth of Modern Art | |
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Event Type: Adult Program Age Group(s): Adult, All Ages Date: 1/17/2015 Start Time: 11:00 AM End Time: 12:15 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."
Library: Sunriver Public Library*cr* Location: Meeting Room Contact: Tina Walker Davis Contact Number: 541-312-1034 Presenter: Henry Sayre |