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2023

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"Those Common Everyday Things We All Know": Roger Brown's American Art, Jake Brodsky May 2023

"Those Common Everyday Things We All Know": Roger Brown's American Art, Jake Brodsky

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Roger Brown (1941–1997) was an American artist associated with the Chicago Imagists. Borrowing elements from American visual culture to construct an idiosyncratic language of motifs, Brown’s paintings demand a mode of attention—of looking, searching, recognizing, identifying—that parallels the structures of feeling that constitute being in America.