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F20 Askew - ANTHRCUL 222 - Comparative Study of Cultures

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Comparative Study of Cultures - warm up discussion
Two images, one above the other. The top is of the face a black man with streched earlobes and the bottom is of the face of a white man wearing glasses. 
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Background on Dinh Q. Lê and His Work Interconfined
Image comprised of three figures with the central figure interwoven between a Buddhist statue and a Christ-like figure in a red robe. The material of the work is cut into strips and is woven together.
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Economy and Exchange / Politics and Power - Deep Dive with Yinka Shonibare
Dollhouse replica of a two-storey Victorian-style flat in the East End of London. The façade is red brick with white molding. The upper storey has two tall windows that face onto the street; the door into the flat is on the left, and to the right of it is a large bay window. The split-level interior holds a bedroom and parlor, both of which are decorated with wallpaper and furnishings, including cabinets, chairs, tables, fireplaces, and a canopy bed. Reproductions of paintings by Shonibare and Jean-Honoré Fragonard hang on the walls. A seal on the right-facing outside wall reads: “Yinka Shonibare, artist, lives here.”<br /><br /> First Floor: Reproduction of Diary of a Victorian Dandy: 14:00 Hours (1998) by Yinka Shonibare; Cabinet with shelves and books; wing chair with footstool; large bureau; fireplace; round table; side table; two chairs; bowl and cup;<br /><br /> Second Floor: Canopy bed; mirror; small bureau; reproduction of The Swing (1767) by Jean-Honore Fragonard; fireplace; chair; washstand with pit
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Life and Death - Deep Dive with Todd Hoyer
A bulbous vessel with narrow mouth and base. The wood is burned and cracked and circled by three gold bands, two of which overlap.<br /> burnt wood vessel with gold
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Economy and Exchange / Politics and Power - Deep Dive with 17th-century still life
This remarkable still life depicts a table crowded with, among other things, a gilded covered goblet, a wide saucer-shaped silver tazza, a celestial globe painted with images of the constellations, a skull wearing a laurel wreath, and an extinguished candle, all rendered in exquisite detail with careful attention paid to the effects of light and texture. While the arrangement of objects may appear casual, the composition is artfully balanced along two diagonal axes centered on the two cups that lie crossed on the table. The repetition of ovoid shapes throughout the painting and the monochrome tonality with its restricted range of hues and values, a hallmark of Heda's style, assures the seamless integration of the sundry objects into a unified whole.<br />
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W21 Modey - ALA 270 - Speaking of Faith

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Background on Dinh Q. Lê and His Work Interconfined
Image comprised of three figures with the central figure interwoven between a Buddhist statue and a Christ-like figure in a red robe. The material of the work is cut into strips and is woven together.
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Sultana's Dream - short story by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain / visual adaptation by Chitra Ganesh
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Cullen Washington Jr: The Public Square
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Untitled Vessel, The Peter Norton Family Christmas Project 2004

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Devotional Objects Across Religions
Gilded brass (or gilded copper alloy) standing Buddha on lotus pedestal with both hands raised in abhaya mudra.
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Background on Dinh Q. Lê and His Work Interconfined

Vietnamese-born
Resides in L.A. and Ho Chi Minh City
Image comprised of three figures with the central figure interwoven between a Buddhist statue and a Christ-like figure in a red robe. The material of the work is cut into strips and is woven together.
  
Dinh Q. Lê
Interconfined
chromogenic prints and linen tape
59 in x 43 ½ in x 2 in (149.86 cm x 110.49 cm x 5.08 cm);54 in x 38 ½ in (137.16 cm x 97.79 cm)
Museum purchase made possible by the University of Michigan Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2018

Major themes: memory, (dual) identity, history

- Inspired by postcolonial deconstructionist Edward Said and the idea of history’s constructed nature. A close reading of grand historical narratives can uncover traces of violent colonial pasts. Lê revives a subaltern traditional craft within the field of contemporary art to repurpose the tools and language of a historically dominant culture.
-The Christ image comes from Gerard David’s diptych Christ Carrying the Cross, with the Crucifixion; The Resurrection, with the Pilgrims of Emmaus https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1975.1.119/

- Relationships between Vietnamese and United States culture, history, and memory landscape
- Borrows images from photojournalism, art history, and film (particularly American films about the Vietnam War) 

Process:

Dinh Q. Lê learned how to weave mats from his aunt and uses this process to create large-scale works in which warp and weft (the two basic components used in weaving to turn thread or yarn into fabric), narrow and widen, coalesce and disperse. 

Lê weaves strips of photos from two separate pictures together (one image becoming warp and another weft). Fusing these two images together, Lê creates an oscillating, photographic hybrid. His images are layered in a repetition of patterning with glossy tapestries made entirely out of type C prints (photographic print made from a color negative, transparency, or digital image, and developed using a chromogenic process). Linen tape is used to finish the edges, with his meticulous and precise craftsmanship. 


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