Strange Fruit: Alabama Grapes – (Thornton Dial, Jr.) ◄ Προηγούμενος Επόμενος ►

Artist: Thornton Dial, Jr.

ημερομηνία: 2003

μέγεθος: 185 x 210 cm

μουσείο: Souls Grown Deep (Atlanta, United States)

Τεχνική: Assemblage

In a continued exploration of the still-life genre, Dial borrowed the stock image of grape clusters so ubiquitous in the fine-art tradition and recast them to portray a horrific chapter in African American history—the practice of lynching blacks in the South. Calling the series