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Author: Julia Geerlings

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MASTRY: KERRY JAMES MARSHALL

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Africanah.org at 5: We celebrate the 5th anniversary of this magazine with the re-publication of a number of remarkable essays. This one is on Kerry James Marshall. In 2013 he said in an interview with Rob Perrée: “We could not refer to our role in art history, because we did not play a role in that history.” (https://africanah.org/kerry-james-marshall-i-call-attention-absence-black-presence/). Now you can say that Marshall has a place in the Western canon of art. The exhibition ‘Mastry’ made that very clear. Julia Geerlings wrote this article on that show. In December 2016.

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