The Painter and the Police

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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2178-0447.ars.2023.215316

Keywords:

Contemporary Art, Painting, Representation, Commitment, Racial Debate

Abstract

Departing from the manifestations against police brutality targeting racialized people as the background for this essay, art historian Darby English focuses on a single painting by Kerry James Marshall, Untitled (policemen), from 2015, offering, as an analytical method, the painstaking description of its formal elements, such as the pose of the figure on the foreground, its costume, the colors, as well as other details from the scene. Highlighting, therefore, the ambiguities and the irresolution held by the artist through the picture, the author elaborates on crucial issues regarding the current system of representation in art and contemporary culture.

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Author Biographies

  • Leandro Muniz, Universidade de São Paulo

    Leandro Muniz atua como artista e curador.  Mestrando em história, crítica e teoria da arte pela Escola de Comunicaçãos e Artes da USP, é formado em artes visuais pela mesma instituição. Em 2022, apresentou a individual "Domingo", na Casa de Cultura do Parque, em São Paulo. Foi curador das mostras “Sala de vídeo: Aline Motta” (MASP, 2022), “migalhas” (Galeria O Quarto, 2019), "Disfarce" (Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade, 2017), entre outras.

  • Liliane Benetti, Universidade de São Paulo

    Liliane Benetti é professora doutora na área de História, Teoria e Crítica de Arte do Departamento de Artes Plásticas da Escola de Comunicações e Artes da Universidade de São Paulo e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Artes Visuais da ECA-USP.

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Published

2023-08-31

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Vol. 21 No. 48 (2023)

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English, D. (2023). The Painter and the Police (L. Muniz & L. Benetti , Trans.). ARS, 21(48), 390-443. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2178-0447.ars.2023.215316