mhd
12-05-2003, 02:20 PM
this goes out to neco
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33515-2003Dec3.html
"For a long time, white folks in this country have put other races under the microscope.
Imagine turning that same microscope back on them. You'd look at white people as an ethnographer might, observing physical characteristics, habits and mores. What do these people wear? What about their mating rituals? How do they raise kids?
Though it sounds unusual, that's the approach curator Maurice Berger took in gathering the works for his intriguing, if vexing, exhibition "White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art," on view at the Center for Art and Visual Culture at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33515-2003Dec3.html
"For a long time, white folks in this country have put other races under the microscope.
Imagine turning that same microscope back on them. You'd look at white people as an ethnographer might, observing physical characteristics, habits and mores. What do these people wear? What about their mating rituals? How do they raise kids?
Though it sounds unusual, that's the approach curator Maurice Berger took in gathering the works for his intriguing, if vexing, exhibition "White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art," on view at the Center for Art and Visual Culture at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County"