“Truth or consequence and believe-it-or-not notions umbrella Colescott’s work. Whether replacing Old Master work subjects with Black images or revealing the fantasies held about Black men and women, the subtext is race and sex and the power...
Oil on heavy fabric, canvas; “ ‘My artwork is a process of storytelling—bringing and invoking the past and spirits and ancestors into people and environments. The society… has created an environment of mistrust… Everyone has to conform to...
Acrylic and oil paintstick on canvas; “Basquiat emerged as an artist in the 1980s, when the cultural mix included drugs, on which he eventually overdosed, hip hop, rap, and graffiti. His works, compact with codes that expose the nature of power...
Oil on canvas with aluminium [aluminum]; [this photo taken at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; painting now at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York].
Figure 37. Livia. Cat. 27: Pompeii. Antiquarium 4400 (caption, p.40); Statue composed of head and reused body. Found leaning against the wall in the peristyle of the Villa of the Mysteries. (p.157)
Figure 89. Detail of Figure 88. [Cat. 24: Paestum]. Madrid, Museo Arqueologico. (caption, p.111); Found in Paestum in 1860, along with a seated statue of Tiberius. (p.156)
