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The Disjointed Self: Interrogating Interiority in the Collage Works of Romare Bearden and Wangechi Mutu
2020
This thesis examines the collage works of modernist artist Romare Bearden and contemporary, postmodern artist Wangechi Mutu in order to examine a historical shift occurring between the mid-1960s and the early 2000s-2010s. Both artists are concerned with recontextualizing representations of black subjects, but while Bearden's disjointed figures are grounded in reality in their placement within urban scenes, Mutu's alien-human fusions are often depicted in extraterrestrial environments. Bearden's
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