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    Michael Ray Charles

    Michael Ray Charles


    $100.00

    • Format: Hardcover
    • 80 pages
    • Publisher: Tony Shafrazi Gallery
    • Published: January 1998
    • ISBN-10: 189147510X
    • ISBN-13: 9781891475108

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    This book catalogs the work of 29-year-old artist Michael Ray Charles, whose imaginative use of racist stereotypes is a pointed effort to deconstruct history's visual language of degradation. His appropriation of such now-taboo cultural depictions as Aunt Jemima and Little Black Sambo serves as a cutting commentary on the ways in which these caricatures still permeate our social landscape. This book, a catalog from one of Charles's most recent exhibitions, offers a wide selection of the artist's work, and includes introductions by Spike Lee and Calvin Reid, as well as a biography of the artist.
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