Large-scale catalogue produced in conjunction with exhibition held at The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, January 18 - June 1, 2003, traveling to Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, August 30 - December 5, 2003. ... [details]
"Work by black artists today is almost uniformly understood in terms of its "blackness," with audiences often expecting or requiring it to "represent" the race. In How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness, Darby English shows how severely such expectations limit the scope of our knowledge about this work and how different it looks when approached on its own terms. ... [details]
