Word: mcelroy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...curated by Guy C. McElroy, this is a highly polemical exhibition. Its main aim is to show how white American artists (and a few black ones) depicted black American people -- to argue against the notion that art is color-blind. Most American painters, in McElroy's view, put racial stereotypes in their work. These were usually negative. "Prosperous collectors created a demand for depictions that fulfilled their own ideas of blacks as grotesque buffoons, servile menials, comic entertainers, or threatening subhumans," McElroy writes in the catalog. "This vicious cycle of supply and demand sustained images that denied the inherent humanity...