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Title: Betye Saar, Los Angeles, 1970s
Alternative Title: Betye and Alison Saar, both artists
Date Created and/or Issued: [1970s]
1970/1980
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: Betye Saar’s is an African American artist whose work mixes surreal, symbolic imagery with a folk art aesthetic. As a participant in the African-American Los Angeles art scene of the 1970s, Saar appropriated characters such as Aunt Jemima, Uncle Tom, and other stereotypes from folk culture and advertising in her works—usually collages and assemblages.
Portrait of Betye Saar in her art studio. Her artworks are visible in the background.
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b23_f14_001.tif
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Subject: Assemblage (Art)
African American women artists
Saar, Betye
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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