Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Leader
Image View:
Overall view showing depth of wash board "frame"
Creator:
Betye Saar (American sculptor, born 1926)
Location:
repository: Colby College Museum of Art (Waterville, Maine, United States) 2012.328
Location Note:
5600 Mayflower Hill; Lunder Collection
GPS:
44.565-69.660833
Date:
1998 (creation)
Cultural Context:
American
Style Period:
Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
assemblage (sculpture)
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
mixed media assemblage including wash board
Technique:
assemblage (sculpture technique)
Measurements:
66 cm (height) x 34.3 cm (width) x 7 cm (depth)
Subjects:
contemporary (1960 to present); African Americans; Blacks in art; Civil rights; political art; protest art; Aunt Jemima; Mammy
Description:
Saar was a part of the Black Arts Movement in the 1970s, which engaged myths and stereotypes about race and femininity. Saar was inspired to create assemblages by a 1967 exhibition by found object sculptor, Joseph Cornell. She was also greatly influenced by Simon Rodia's Watts Towers, which she witnessed being built in her childhood. This work is one of many where Saar took a found object of an Aunt Jemima or Mammy figure and subverted the original stereotype by adding weapons to empower the figure. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-SAAR-CA-L-A02
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Leader