2016 Papers by Penny Savryn
This article looks at the ways that pop singer Beyoncé and rapper Jay Z challenge the white art w... more This article looks at the ways that pop singer Beyoncé and rapper Jay Z challenge the white art world. It examines the ways that Black artists, including themselves, create representations of Blackness in a high status art world through lyrics, collecting, and painting. Jay Z and Beyoncé use their immense cultural celebrity to draw attention to the absence of Blackness in the history of art. At the same time, contemporary Black artists such as Mickalene Thomas and Kehinde Wiley insert themselves into the traditions of western art by remixing old masterpieces with Black subjects. A trip to the Louvre by Jay Z and Beyoncé with their daughter and a traveling exhibition of work by Black artists called 30 Americans mark a contemporary assertion of Blackness in art.
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2016 Papers by Penny Savryn