Revising an icon set for Wednesday

Friday, October 12, 2012

 

 

Revising an icon art presentation

Dr. Louise Siddons will offer a roundtable talk titled “American Vision: How the Black Panthers Revised an Icon of the Great Depression” on Wednesday, Oct. 17, from noon to 1 p.m. in room 104 of the Bartlett Center at OSU. The talk is free and open to the public.

Siddons will explore the political and aesthetic implications of a 1972 drawing by Black Panther illustrator Malik (right) that transformed a 1936 photograph of a migrant mother for a new use. Malik’s illustration will be presented in the larger context of her work for the Black Panthers and her use of collage, appropriation, and mixed-media as a politicized rejection of documentary photographic practice.

Siddons is an assistant professor of art history and curator of the OSU Museum of Art. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary American printmaking and photography, with a particular focus on histories of race and theories of materiality. Her roundtable talk is based on research she conducted for her book-length study of the influence of racial theories on representations of family and reproductive sexuality in the 1920s and ‘30s.

Siddons talk is part of an art faculty-led series. Click here for more information on the series. For museum blog, click here.  For Museum of Art website, click here.