<I>Black Room with Bitches Brew</I>
date: label: Date
content: 2010
name: label: Created by
content: Renée Stout, American, born 1958
label: Subject of
content: Miles Davis, American, 1926 - 1991
notes: label: Caption
content: Renée Stout is best known for her multifaceted approach to art, making use of a variety of materials and media. Her innovative incorporation of storytelling, use of the alter ego, investigation into West African spiritual traditions, and allusions to popular culture form a type of environment that is both real and imaginary. Her work evokes personal as well as collective cultural memory.
label: Caption
content: The title and objects in Stout’s installation conjure phrases such as black magic, black as midnight, black as tar, and black is beautiful, and reference themes related to gender, strength, power, nourishment, poison, and creation. They also play on Miles Davis’s innovative and influential jazz album Bitches Brew, whose cover art featured similar diametrically linked themes such as light/dark, good/evil, white/black, male/female, and earth/heaven.
label: Description
content: A framed portrait element (.2) of an installation artwork. The portrait is a bust view of a woman wearing a blue dress with two (2) white buttons on the front. The woman's dark brown hair is styled in a side-parted bob, and she is wearing gold hoop earrings and lipstick. She is looking towards the proper right. The picture is in a wood frame, glazed with glass curved in a slight convex.
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: African diaspora
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Hoodoo
label: Topic
content: Religion
label: Topic
content: Women
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Visual Arts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2013.148.2
objectType: label: Type
content: assemblages (sculpture)
label: Type
content: portraits
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Renée Stout
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: dye and photographic gelatin on photographic paper, wood, glass
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 18 1/2 × 13 × 1 1/4 in. (47 × 33 × 3.2 cm)