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Title
King James Version
Creator
Olabisi, Noni, Artist
Contributor
Olabisi, Noni, Artist
Date Created and/or Issued
1999
1999-01
Publication Information
California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives, Dept of Special Collections, Donald Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, cema@library.ucsb.edu, (805) 893-8563, URL: http://cemaweb.library.ucsb.edu/cema_index.html
Contributing Institution
UC Santa Barbara, Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Collection
Self-Help Graphics and Art archives
Rights Information
Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
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California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives, Dept of Special Collections, Donald Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010; cema@library.ucsb.edu (805) 893-8563
Description
Image is of a man kneeling with his hands tied above him. There are blood spots on his shirt. To the left of the image is a female figure. The background is red. The foreground is an open book with the scripture of Lebiticus, Chapter 26 and a hand gun resting on top of it. "The physical, cultural, and spiritual survival of the African diaspora is embodied in the visually dominating fertility figure from Ghana, even as slavery was grounded in an institutionalized, Eurocentric version of Christianity"--Maestras Atelier XXXIII 1999.
Atelier 33; silkscreen; I-size: 26 1/2" x 19 1/4"; P-size: 30 1/4"x 22"; Ed# : 4/58, 6/58; Signed;, Inscription in pencil below image area reads: "4/58, King James Version, Noni Olabisi 1999."
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Type
image
Form/Genre
Screen Prints
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb6v19p1kv
CEMA 3
Language
English
Subject
Women
Violence
Religion in art
Discrimination
Slavery in art
Chicano art
Mexican American art
Chicanos
Mexican Americans
Place
Los Angeles (Calif.)

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