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Bibliography For "African Art Forms Display", Isabella Piechota, Kalea Brown Aug 2023

Bibliography For "African Art Forms Display", Isabella Piechota, Kalea Brown

Library Displays and Bibliographies

A bibliography created to accompany a display about African art forms in August 2023 at the Leatherby Libraries at Chapman University.


African American Culture In Historical Art Museums: Remembering A Buried Tragic Past, Lana Sarkisian Dec 2016

African American Culture In Historical Art Museums: Remembering A Buried Tragic Past, Lana Sarkisian

Student Scholar Symposium Abstracts and Posters

The transparency of reality reflecting in art often represents a false tragedy in African American history because of the lack of preservation and representation due to a predominantly white dominion, ultimately leaving the veracity of their history to consign to oblivion. There is a common thread of forgetfulness with the retrieval of art in today’s society that embodies the African American community. Although artist Fred Wilson does not explicitly assert his assessment to the lack of black representation on account of cultural differences, he vocalizes how African American culture is indoctrinated to the public in a white, supremacist national narrative …