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Barbara Earl Thomas: The Geography of Innocence

Barbara Earl Thomas: The Geography of Innocence

Manchanda, Catharina
Taha, Halima
Thomas, Barbara Earl

Paperback

American Art - African American & BlackBlack American Studies

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ISBN10: 0932216781
ISBN13: 9780932216786
Publisher: Seattle Art Museum
Published: Nov 1 2021
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.30 Width: 8.40 Depth: 9.90
Language: English

A revered Seattle-based artist calls for hope, faith, and truth

Barbara Earl Thomas's new body of work carries within it the sediments of history and grapples with race and the color line. At the heart of it lies a story of life and death, hope and resilience--a child's survival. With her quietly glowing portraits of young Black boys and girls, Thomas puts before us the humble question: can we see, and be present to, the humanity, the trust, the hopes and dreams of each of these children?

The Geography of Innocence offers a reexamination of Black portraiture and the preconceived dichotomies of innocence and guilt and sin and redemption, and the ways in which these notions are assigned and distorted along cultural and racial lines. Two interconnected visual arguments unfold: a portrait gallery of children from the artist's extended community and an illuminated environment that appears like a delicate paper lantern. To accompany the visual elements, the book's essays examine Thomas's work in the context of different art historical portraiture traditions and political relevance. Thomas also contributes an interview and an essay reflecting on the current climate in which the work exists.

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