Untitled (Mlle Bourgeoise Noire)
Catalogue
- Year
- 1980
- Dimensions
- Each, approx. 8 1/2 x 10" (21.6 x 25.4 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Lorraine O'Grady
Artist
Photography
Lorraine O'Grady was an American artist, writer, translator, and critic. Working in conceptual art and performance art that integrates photo and video installation, she explored the cultural construction of identity – particularly that of Black female subjectivity – as shaped by the experience of diaspora and hybridity. O'Grady studied at Wellesley College and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop before becoming an artist at the age of 45. Regarding the purpose of art, O'Grady said in 2016: "I think art's first goal is to remind us that we are human, whatever that is. I suppose the politics in my art could be to remind us that we are all human."
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Miscegenated Family Album (Worldly Princesses), L: Nefertiti’s daughter, Merytaten; R: Devonia’s daughter, Kimberley
1980 · Silver dye bleach prints, printed 2008
Miscegenated Family Album (Ceremonial Occasions I), L: Devonia as Matron of Honor; R: Nefertiti performing a lustration
1980 · Silver dye bleach prints, printed 2008
Miscegenated Family Album
1980 · Sixteen silver dye bleach print diptychs, framed
Miscegenated Family Album (Motherhood), L: Nefertiti; R: Devonia reading to Candace and Edward, Jr.
1980 · Silver dye bleach prints, printed 2008
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- Lorraine O'Grady
- Year
- 1980
- Dimensions
- Each, approx. 8 1/2 x 10" (21.6 x 25.4 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1980-M108218
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified