This is great, Mark. But I'm also grateful for the chance to see the
Diebenkorn paintings in that list, as well. Was lucky enough to see the
1999 retrospective at the SFMOMA. I think his work will last.
Doug
On 29-Oct-07, at 2:58 PM, Mark Weiss wrote:
> Robert Colescott replaces all of the figures in Leutze's painting with
> representations of cliches about black people in his wonderful George
> Washington Carver Crosses the Delaware. Images of minstrels, mammies,
> bare-foot fishermen, etc, which have become kitsch collectibles for
> middle class blacks of the past few decades (price a period Aunt
> Jemima jar to see what I mean) , all of them having a grand old time,
> replace the desperately struggling Continentals. Kitsch, and the
> kitsch version of American history, has been appropriated into a
> reverberant statement about race in America, at once profoundly
> serious and hysterically funny.
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