For nearly forty years, Carrie Mae Weems has been investigating family relationships, cultural ident
For nearly forty years, Carrie Mae Weems has been investigating family relationships, cultural identity, racism, sexism, class, political systems, and the consequences of power through interdisciplinary practices employing photographs, text, fabric, audio, digital images, installation, and video. “I’m interested in the historical past as well as the historical present, and how the past has a kind of hold on the present, how it shapes us.” – Carrie Mae Weems (p. 109)Images from “From Here I saw What Happened and I Cried” 1995 - 1996Carrie Mae Weems : strategies of engagementEdited by Robin Lydenberg and Ash Anderson.Weems, Carrie Mae, 1953- [photographer] Boston : McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, [2018]Distributed: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2018.188 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cmEnglishIssued in conjunction with the exhibition Carrie Mae Weems: strategies of engagement, held at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, September 10 to December 13, 2018.ISBN : 1892850338ISBN : 9781892850331HOLLIS number: 99153724480503941 -- source link
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