Strange Fruit: Alabama Grapes – (Thornton Dial, Jr.) ◄ Tidigare Nästa ►

Artist: Thornton Dial, Jr.

datum: 2003

storlek: 185 x 210 cm

museum: Souls Grown Deep (Atlanta, United States)

Teknik: 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