The Art of Erasure
| dc.contributor.author | Cristian, Réka M. | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-06-26 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This essay discusses the visual shift of race and gender representation in a selection of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s paintings. The Brooklyn graffiti artist, who was known for elevating the street energy of vernacular inscriptions into high art, reinterpreted Édouard Manet’s Olympia (1863) in Three-Quarters of Olympia Minus the Servant (1982) by erasing racial difference and challenging gender stereotypes in a work devoid of gender markers. In Untitled (Maid from Olympia) (1982), another version of the modernist painting, Basquiat places the figure of the black servant, formerly a colonized subject, in the center of the work; as a result, the servant “talks back” in a visual narrative functioning as a critique of colonization. Both paintings thus recast and reinterpret Manet’s Olympia and her world in a contemporary signification of race and gender by emphasis, or lack thereof, of such markers. (RMC) | en |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, Vol. 23 No. 2 (2017) , | |
| dc.identifier.eissn | 2732-0421 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1218-7364 | |
| dc.identifier.issue | 2 | |
| dc.identifier.jtitle | Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2437/294894 | en |
| dc.identifier.volume | 23 | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.relation | https://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/hjeas/article/view/7317 | |
| dc.rights.access | Open Access | |
| dc.rights.owner | Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies | |
| dc.subject | Jean-Michel Basquiat | en |
| dc.subject | graffiti | en |
| dc.title | The Art of Erasure | en |
| dc.type | folyóiratcikk | hu |
| dc.type | article | en |
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