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Rhetoric and Revolution: Marcia Tucker’s Influence on the Art World
Marcia Tucker, c. 1973. Photo: Carlus Dyer, The New Museum By analyzing an interview with the Archives of American Art, her memoir A Short Life of Trouble: Forty Years in the New York Art World, an exhibition catalog for the 1994 exhibition Bad Girls, and a collection of her professional writings titled Out of Bounds,…
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The Interconnected Ideas of Liliana Wilson and Gloria Anzaldúa
While working through the collections of notable artists and art historians at the Nettie Lee Benson Library’s archives, I came across a document that revealed an exciting connection: an exhibition program from Liliana Wilson’s 2002 show at the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center in San Antonio, Texas, featuring an artistic analysis by the renowned writer…
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Carmen Aldunate, “Untitled” (1978)
In instances of oppression, art has often served as a powerful tool of resistance and a platform for social commentary. This is particularly evident in the work of Chilean artist Carmen Aldunate, who created art throughout Augusto Pinochet’s regime that controlled Chile from 1973 to 1990. In her chalk and gouache drawing Untitled (1978), resistance…
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