Kerry James Marshall Quotes About Representation

Quotes about: Representation

• [My picture A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ] was a way of demonstrating that there was a broad range of possibilities and fairly unlimited utility for a black figure that didn't have to comprise its blackness in order to preserve a place in the field of representation.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Artist, Self, Order

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The privileged position of whiteness doesn't allow for someone with one drop of Negro blood to be considered white, which allows whiteness to be a fairly pure category while blackness has to absorb an expansive reality of representation.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Reality, Blood, White

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Abstraction and representation are supposed to be going down two very different paths, one sociological and the other aesthetic.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Two, Different, Path

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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