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Title
Bedia's
Stirring
Wheel
.
Creator
Durham, Jimmie (American sculptor, performance artist, and video artist, born 1940)
Date
1985
Cultural Context
American
North American
Native American
Style/Period
Contemporary
Postmodern
Theme
Sculpture (visual work)
Mixed media
Symbolism (artistic concept)
Symbols
Imagery
Culture
Cultural heritage
Iconography
Race (concept)
Racial discrimination
Discrimination
Ethnicity
Ethnic groups
Native Americans
Indians of North America
Cherokee Indians
Ethnocentrism
Ethnography
History (discipline)
Histories
Irony
Humor
Imagination
Narrative (artistic device)
Archaeology
Excavation (process)
Rituals (events)
Hide
Animal material
Steering wheels
Subject
Sculpture
Mixed media
Symbols
Discrimination
Race discrimination
Race relations
Racism
Ethnic groups
Ethnic stereotypes
Indigenous peoples
Cultural relations
History
Irony
Fantasy
Archaeology
Excavation
Hides & skins
Steering wheels
Description
"
Durham's
symbolic
recoding
of the
imagery
of
modern
America
in the
terms
of its
native
Indians
is
interesting
in
relation
to
Joseph
Beuys's
use
of
Indian
iconography
for
purposes
of
symbolic
retribution
. As a
modernist
,
Beuys
assumed
his
work
could
possess
a
certain
universality
of
meaning
. By
contrast
,
Durham's
'postmodern'
gesture
acknowledges
ambiguities
of
translation
in the
way
it
treats
its
subject
.
Beuys
, of
course
, was
European
whilst
Durham
actually
came
from an
American
Indian
background.
"
(Caption
,
p.221)
; "For
artists
of
mixed
racial
origin
there was an
urgent
need
to
discover
their
own
voices
.
[…]
An
exemplary
figure
here
is
the
Cherokee
Indian
artist
Jimmie
Durham
.
Actively
involved
in the
American-Indian
Movement
during
the
later
1970s
,
Durham
has
since
produced
objects
,
performances
, and
installations
which
wittily
expose
the
mingling
of
mythologization
and
historical
disavowal
that
characterize
white
US
attitudes
towards
North
American
Indians
. In
Bedia's
Stirring
Wheel
(1985)
a
car's
steering-wheel
is
wrapped
in
hides
and
star-patterned
cloth
and
embellished
with
animal
trophies
,
producing
an
ironic
hybrid
of
'primitivist'
ritual
object
and
Western
'Conceptualist'
readymade
. A
playful
text
accompanying
the
work
proposes
that
it
has been
unearthed
by a
Cuban
archaeologist
,
Jose
Bedia
,
during
an
excavation
of the
'White
Planes'
in
3290
AD
.
Bedia
identifies
the
find
as
'a
symbol
of
Office
for the
Great
White
Father'
who
,
standing
behind
it
,
made
'pronouncements
and
stirring
speeches'
. A
form
of
symbolic
revenge
on the
West's
technological
triumphalism
is
envisaged.
"
(Excerpt
,
p.222)
Material
Mixed media
Found objects
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Cloth
Animal material
Steering wheels
Measurements
121.9 x 48.3 cm
Work Type
Sculpture
Mixed media
Source
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.221, fig.115)
Rights
Photo Fred Scruton, New York. Collection of Karen & Andy Stillpass, Cincinnati. Reproduced in Hopkins courtesy of Nicole Klagsbrun 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
827-15.jpg
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