whos-afraid-of-postblack-art: “Young artists have no sense of history….It’s as if what preceded them is of no value or never really happened…Young artists in particular don’t want to acknowledge antecedents. I’m not really interested in recuperating history and I’m certainly not interested in romantic nostalgia for the past, but I’m very aware of the history of art that preceded me. Every artist works through history.” Clifford Owens Prelingual 2008 c-print

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“Young artists have no sense of history….It’s as if what preceded them is of no value or never really happened…Young artists in particular don’t want to acknowledge antecedents. I’m not really interested in recuperating history and I’m certainly not interested in romantic nostalgia for the past, but I’m very aware of the history of art that preceded me. Every artist works through history.”

Clifford Owens

Prelingual

2008

c-print