Birmingham Race Riot
1964
Andy Warhol
American, 1928-1987
Contemporary Art
Warhol’s repetitions of Charles Moore’s photographs from Birmingham, Alabama, brought the reality of police violence into art spaces at a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement, after they had appeared in a Life magazine photo-essay that shocked white Americans. As today, some viewers may have felt reassured to see police violently uphold the white supremacist status quo.
- Maker/Artist
- Warhol, Andy
- Classification
- Formatted Medium
- Black ink silkscreen print on off-white moderately textured wove paper
- Medium
- black, ink, silkscreen, print, off-white, moderately, textured, wove, paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm) frame: 27 3/4 x 31 3/4 x 1 7/8 in. (70.5 x 80.6 x 4.8 cm)
- Departments
- Contemporary Art
- Accession Number
- 86.285.9
- Credit Line
- Gift of R. Wallace and Ruth Bowman
- Exhibitions
- Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties, Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection, Andy Warhol: Revelation
- Rights Statement
- © artist or artist's estate
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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