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Larger Image	Larger image may be viewed by UofL faculty, staff, and students only (log-in required using ULink username/password) at: http://echo.louisville.edu/login?url=http://vrc-web.louisville.edu/Jpegs/1850/1852-22.jpg
Title	Knowledge of the Past is the Key to the Future (Love makes the World go Round).
Creator	Colescott, Robert (American painter, 1925-2009)
Date	1985
Cultural Context	American African-American North American
Style/Period	Contemporary
Theme	Paintings (visual works) Acrylic paintings (visual works) Commentaries Allusion Race (concept) Sex Sexuality Figures (representations) Figurative art Men (male humans) African American Women Adults Nudes (representations) Nudity Front views Profiles (figures) Embracing Chains (object genres) Shackles Books Heads (animal or human components) Heads (representations) Faces (animal or human components) Clouds Landscapes (representations)
Subject	Paintings Acrylic paintings Allusions Ethnic stereotypes Sex Lust Relations between the sexes Men Women Adults Nudes Kissing Chains Shackles Books Heads (Anatomy) Faces Clouds Landscapes (Representations)
Description	“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 relationships between the two.” (Britton, caption, p.15); "In 'Knowledge of the Past is the Key to the Future: Love Makes the World Go Round,' Colescott references a Marilyn Monroe movie, big red Man Ray lips and Niagara Falls in his illustration of a black man who is passionately bound, literally chained, to a white woman. He’s looking at her with such fury it appears he wishes to hurt her. She is oblivious in her state of passion. [...] In this way, Colescott uses vivid colors and bold symbols of people and places in what is, at its heart, a scathing visual commentary on the history of Africans in American society. Common themes include the animal nature of sex, black men in relationships with white women, and stereotypes that have haunted the African-American community." (Excerpt from Metro Times - Arts: Exhibits with bite - http://www2.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=5450)
Material	Acrylic on canvas Acrylic paint Paint Canvas
Measurements	84 x 72 in (213.3 x 182.8 cm)
Technique	Painting (image-making) Acrylic painting (technique)
Work Type	Paintings Acrylic paintings
Repository	Phyllis Kind Gallery (New York, New York)
Source	Britton, Crystal A. African American Art: The Long Struggle. New York: Smithmark, 1996. (p.15 top)
Rights	Photo/illustration credit/reproduced in Britton courtesy: Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York.
Digital Publisher	University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format	image/jpeg
Digital File Name	VRC 1852-22.jpg
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