High and Wide (Carrying the Rats to the Man)
2002
193.0 x 340.0 cm
Souls Grown Deep
In this piece, Dial recalls one of the most horrifying specters in American history and consciousness—the African slave ship. Overall, the work is an ominous scene of entrapment, composed of welded iron bars, chains, and tangled fencing. The golden yellow ship sails are goat hide, a reference to the trade in human chattel, a cargo of human flesh, with a nation’s culpability remembered by the eerie presence of the U.S. flag hanging from the ship’s prow. Chained at center is a disturbing and paradoxical figure: a stuffed Mickey Mouse.With a dark sense of irony and humor, Dial uses the pop-culture icon as a tongue-in-cheek representation of the slaves, imprisoned down in the ship’s hold like rodents, while the character
桑顿·戴尔二世（1952 –）
Thornton Dial Jr.：大胆的组合艺术大师，通过宏伟的作品探讨社会与政治议题。探索种族、历史与自然——来感受他充满力量的艺术作品。
Souls Grown Deep (亚特兰大, 美国)
探索 Souls Grown Deep：一场美国南部黑人艺术的盛宴！发现吉本 (Gee's Bend) 拼布艺术、组合艺术，以及索恩顿·戴尔 (Thornton Dial) 和朗尼·霍利 (Lonnie Holley) 等艺术家带来的动人故事。
关于此作品
- 标题: High and Wide (Carrying the Rats to the Man)
- 艺术家: 桑顿·戴尔二世
- 年份: 2002
- 原尺寸: 193.0 x 340.0 cm
- 格式: Panoramic
- 版权状态: 版权保护中
- 所在地: Souls Grown Deep
- 主色调: Espresso
- 色彩饱和度: Monochromatic
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