Research Catalog

Title

Betye Saar : extending the frozen moment / essays by James Christen Steward [and others].

Author

Saar, Betye.

Publication

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Museum of Art ; Berkeley : University of California Press, [2005], ©2005.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Steward, James Christen.
• University of Michigan. Museum of Art.
• Norton Museum of Art.
• Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Description

176 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 31 cm

Summary

"Betye Saar's interest in nostalgia, memory, and history is often expressed through the incorporation of found photographs in her assemblages. The photographic fragment, "the frozen moment," is a vital thread in Saar's work, holding the power to challenge stereotypes and reconstruct and reclaim the identities of those lost to history. Surveying the career of this remarkable artist through the lens of photography offers fresh perspectives on contemporary art, feminism, and American culture and politics from the 1960s and 1970s to our own time."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Saar, Betye > Exhibitions

Note

• Published in conjunction with the exhibition Betye Saar: extending the frozen moment, held at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Oct. 15, 2005-Jan. 8, 2006; at the Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, Florida, Mar. 18-June 11, 2006; and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Sept. 8-Dec. 3, 2006.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-172) and index.

Contents

Acknowledgments / James Christen Steward -- Artist's statement / Betye Saar -- "Lest we forget" : the liberating art of Betye Saar / James Christen Steward -- Looks and gazes : photographic fragmentation and the found object / Deborah Willis -- To/from Los Angeles with Betye Saar / Kellie Jones -- Reverencing the mortal : assemblage art as prophetic protest in post-World War II California / Richard Candida Smith -- From frozen moment to spectator participation : assemblage and installation in the oeuvre of Betye Saar / Lowery Stokes Sims -- Plates and catalogue entries / Sean M. Ulmer and Katharine Derosier Weiss -- Mysticism -- Ancestry and ritual -- Racial imagery and stereotypes -- Nostalgia and memory -- Aunt Hattie -- Colored.

ISBN

0520246624 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2005017847

OCLC

• ocm60715253
• SCSB-5212154

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries