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...Invoking Byzantine and early Renaissance panels, “Lawdy Mama” also alludes to iconic images of Kathleen Cleaver, Angela Davis and other female trailblazers of the Black Power movement....
...As her work attests, Sims-Hilditch, a descendant of Royal Academician HWB Davis (her mother is the well-known interior designer Emma Sims-Hilditch ), is a rising star....
...It is, says the programme, “inspired by the book by Deborah Davis” and claims to deal with John Singer Sargent’s portrait of Mme Pierre Gautreau, which caused a sensation at the Paris Salon of 1884....
...It’s tempting to read the painting as a statement of Black Power, and Hendricks feels compelled to point out in the catalogue that the woman is “not Angela Davis or Kathleen Cleaver”, just his cousin Kathy...
...JOHN SINGER SARGENT: Figures and Landscapes 1874-1882 by Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray Yale ₤50, 420 pages The fourth volume in the lavish, erudite catalogue raisonne explores the early years of...
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