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John Berger
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Before they are anything else, they are themselves
objects which can be bought and owned. Unique objects.
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To have anything painted and put on a canvas is
not unlike buying it and putting it into your house. If you buy a painting you
buy also the look of the thing it represents.
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Wangechi Mutu at Met
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Ms. Mutu calls “a stunning message from beyond.”
It is testament to her belief that, like street theater or religious rituals,
art can nudge viewers toward congregation.
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The work of these women is immense. The regard
for them is not.”
The Feminist Challenge of Wangechi Mutu | Short
description of one of her collage diptychs at the MoMA
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She builds on the history of artistic photomontage as a socially engaged art form, nodding to
artistic predecessors as diverse as Hannah Höch and Romare Bearden while staking out distinctly personal ideas
on postcolonial Africa and globalization.
Wangechi Mutu Exhibition at Brooklyn Museum
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Mutu encourages audiences to consider these
mythical worlds as places for cultural, psychological, and socio-political
exploration and transformation.
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