How Mickalene Thomas Breaks Up the Modernist Boys Club
How Mickalene Thomas Breaks Up the Modernist Boys Club
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When Pablo Picasso and other early modernists appropriated elements of so-called “primitive” African art for Cubist and proto-Cubist works such as 1907’s Les Demoiselles d'Avignon they perpetrated a kind of artistic colonialism similar to the economic colonialism that brought back African treasures to French museums and galleries in the first place. It was an exclusively European, almost exclusively