Art Across Cultures: Americas

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Representing Race in the USA

Barbara Krueger, We won’t play nature to your culture, 1983

Compared with: Durand, Landscape, Progress, 1853

E. Savage, Washington Family, 1796

J. Kuhn, Henry Darnell III, c.1710

Anon. African American Quilter, Log Cabin Quilt, c.1870 (19^th century USA)

Henry Ossawa Tanner, Banjo Lesson, 1893 (19^th century USA)

Betye Saar, The Liberation of Aunt Jemima, 1972 (20^th century USA)

Terms:

US Civil War (1860-65)

Quilting: patchwork and appliqué, embroidery

Physiognomy

Phenotypical difference

Minstrel, Mammy

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

Assemblage