"Whiteness in Art + Art History " Flashcards
Kehinde Wiley
(born 1977, New York based) Wiley is known for his monumental (large-scale) paintings of contemporary African- American men painted with iconic seventeenth- to nineteenth- century European portraiture conventions and ornate backdrops.
Kehinde Wiley, Napoleon Leading the Army Over the Alps, 2005.
Jacques-Louis David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps, 1800.
Wiley, Equestrian Portrait of King Philip II, 2009.
Ken Gonzales-Day
(born 1964) is a Los Angeles-based artist and scholar, currently a professor at Scripps College.
What did Ken Gonzales-Day do?
Gonzales-Day started to look at current media imagery of Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans and wanted to know more about where these stereotypes and this criminalization were coming from. He recognized a new form of vigilantism on the rise at the border after 9/11 and placed this trend in a history of vigilante violence.This inquiry led him to research an often-forgotten and silenced history of lynching in the West.
What did Ken Gonzales Day discover about latinos?
He found that more Latinos were lynched in the American West than any other race, and his work explores this. Lynching is a practice whereby a mob - usually several dozen or several hundred persons - takes the law into its own hands in order to injure and kill, usually by hanging, a person accused of some wrongdoing - without a legal trial.
Peter Paul Rubens, Equestrian Portrait of King Philip II of Spain, c. 1635.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Napoleon I on His Imperial Throne, 1806.
Wiley, Ice T, 2005.
Ken Gonzales-Day, Erased Lynching series, 2000–13
Ken Gonzales-Day, Erased Lynching series, 2000–13
What was Ken Gonzales-Day’ scholarly study called.
His 2006 scholarly study Lynching in the West: 1850-1935 (Duke University Press) documents and analyses 352 recorded lynchings of victims of all races in California.
Ken Gonzales-Day, Der Wild West Show from Erased Lynching series, 2000–13
Ken Gonzales-Day, Franklin Avenue from Erased Lynching series, 2000–13
The original version of “Franklin Avenue”
Gonzales-Day, East First Street, 2006.
Gonzales-Day, Tombstone, 2006.
Gonzales-Day, At daylight the miserable man was carried to an oak, 2007.
Gonzales-Day, Run Up , 2002
Gonzales-Day, Two Men Were Found on a Tree, 2005
Gonzales-Day, Next Morning When Jimmy Woke, the Cowboys Were Gone, 2002
Gonzales-Day, Momento Mori,2007.
Gonzales-Day, Aaron, 2007.
Fred Wilson, Metalwork 1723-1880 from Mining the Museum, 1992
Fred Wilson, Mining the Museum, 1992
Fred Wilson, Mining the Museum, 1992
Fred Wilson, Mining the Museum, 1992
Wunderkammern // “Musei Wormiani Historia” 1655
Wunderkammern // Frans II Francken, painting of a cabinet, 1636
Saartjie Baartman
Ota Benga
Zoë Charlton
•Be Sarahvideo 2012
When did Lynching reach it’s height in the US and what was its focus?
Lynching (and anti-lynching movement) reached its height in the U.S. from the 1890s to the 1930s. Focus tended to be on widespread murder of black Americans in the context of the Civil War, Reconstruction and its aftermath.
Who else was lynched other than African Americans in the deep south?
Latinos, Native Americans, and Chinese immigrants in the American West.
George Catlin, Catlin Painting the Portrait of
Mah-to-toh-pa-Mandan (detail), painting, 1861/1869
