Now You Cookin' With Gas
Artist
Betye Saar
(b. 1926)
Date2000
MediumColor Screenprint
Dimensions14 7/8 x 11 in. (37.8 x 27.9 cm)
ClassificationsPrintmaking
Credit LineGift of the Rowe Collection
Object number2025.003
DescriptionSaar’s art became political as she was growing up in Los Angeles; by the 1970s, she was at the center of the city’s vibrant Black Arts movement. “The personal is political” became a fundamental principle of her work. A practitioner of assemblage art, a found-object process, her work "The Liberation of Aunt Jemima" challenged a pervasive racial stereotype.This is a one of a series of mixed media collages Saar created in collaboration with author and filmmaker Zora Neale Hurston, for their book "Bookmarks in the Pages of Life: A Selection of Short Stories."
Dora James, Curator
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1976
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