Darby English is an uncommonly thoughtful art historian who says that interpreting a work of art is never straightforward. He specializes in African-American art history and deplores the tendency to reduce black art to a vehicle for ready-made arguments about injustice and social uplift. Lest he himself be flattened into a type — an African-American man whose tastes are defined by some presumed community — he requested, only half-jokingly, that this article not be accompanied by artwork by Jacob Lawrence, perhaps the most acclaimed black painter of the 20th century.
Posted on: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 00:12:14 +0000
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