Betye Saar
Subtitle: extending the frozen moment
By: essays by James Christen Steward ... [et al.] ; contributions by Sean M. Ulmer, Katharine Derosier Weiss.
Contributors: Steward, James Christen.; Ulmer, Sean M.; Weiss, Katharine D.; University of Michigan. Museum of Art.; Norton Museum of Art.; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Publisher: University of Michigan Museum of Art; University of California Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Ann Arbor; Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Saar, Betye -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions
Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, October 15, 2005-January 8, 2006; at the Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, Florida, March 18-June 11, 2006; and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, September 8-December 3, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-172) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Lest we forget": the liberating art of Betye Saar / James Christen Steward; title: Looks and gazes: photographic fragmentation and the found object / Deborah Willis; title: To/from Los Angeles with Betye Saar / Kellie Jones; title: Reverencing the mortal: assemblage art as prophetic protest in post-World Warr II California / Richard Cándida Smith; title: From frozen moment to spectator participation: assemblage and installation in the oeuvre of Betye Saar / Lowery Stokes Sims; title: Plates and catalogue entries / Sean M. Ulmer, Katharine Derosier Weiss; title: Mysticism; title: Ancestry and ritual; title: Racial imagery and stereotypes; title: Nostalgia and memory; title: Aunt Hattie; title: Colored.