Kerry James Marshall's Portrait of the Artist

In the video we made on Basquiat's Defacement, we briefly mentioned Kerry James Marshall and Ralph Ellison's 1952 Invisible Man. Both artists analyzed and made statements on black identity and the perception of blackness. Marshall's A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self is a great study of black identity when paralleled with Ellison's novel. It's a powerful illustration of black invisibility.
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