Reviews for Art And Work

The average rating for Art And Work based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-07-20 00:00:00 Eric Hernandez A brilliant, devastating and exhaustive study of the means by which lynching became occasions for illustrations and photographs, as ghastly forms of celebration and commemoration. Apel reflects on the ways in which images from past events are defined and resituated by present needs and desires. She considers how the visual documentation of such crimes often functions as a central vehicle for the construction and maintenance of racial hierarchies. Explaining how lynching was often orchestrated explicitly for the camera, Apel shows how these images circulated on postcards, but also were appropriated by anti-lynching forces and artists from the 1930s to the present. She also establishes the role played by gender in these visual representations, specifically the manner in which photographs were used to construct ideologies of "whiteness" and "blackness," and also the ways in which interracial desire became part of the imagery. In the book's final chapter, Apel considers how these narratives of lynching have been translated in contemporary art in different media, and thus likens this process of recuperation to the memory effects that she studied in her first book.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-07-27 00:00:00 Michael Baca had to read for a class