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Renee Cox: Ambivalence, Parody and Artistic Responsibility. A French print “La Belle Hottentot” after the display and objectification of Sarah Bartman (Saartje Bartman) in Britain and France, ca. 1814. Unknown artist, Femme de race Boschimanne,
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Renee Cox: Ambivalence, Parody and Artistic Responsibility
A French print “La Belle Hottentot” after the display and objectification of Sarah Bartman (Saartje Bartman) in Britain and France, ca. 1814
Unknown artist, Femme de race Boschimanne, Water color on velum, 1815—supposedly an illustration of a (Khoisan) South African Woman with extended steatopgyia—pandering to European fantasy of the exotic “other”
Cartoon based on Saartjie (Sarah) Baartman, The Hottentot Venus
Renee Cox, (after Saartje Bartman) Hottentot Venus, Photography, 1995
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, The Grand Odalisque, oil on canvas, 1814
Renee Cox, Chillin with Liberty Ektachrome print, 1998
Leonardo da Vinci, Last Supper, 1498, tempera and oil on plaster (Santa Maria della Grazie, Milan)
Renee Cox, Colonization of White People The In-Laws, 1997
Renee Cox, Yo Mama The Sequel, 1993
Renee Cox, The Kiss, 2001 http://www.reneecox.org/american-family
Michael Ray Charles Beware Mixed media 1994
Betye Saar: a) The Liberation of Aunt Jemima—mixed media, 1972 b) Double Duty—I’s Back Wid a vengeance, mixed media, 1997