Image

James Montford

Holocaust Blankets with Smallpox, 2015

Now On View

Description

Maker

Title

Holocaust Blankets with Smallpox

Year

2015

Medium

Cotton and wool blankets, vinyl lettering

Dimensions

Dimensions variable

Type

Credit

Museum purchase: gift of Joseph A. Chazan, MD

Object Number

2015.100

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Phantom of Liberty

May 4 - December 30, 2018

Holocaust Blankets with Smallpox is part of a larger body of work focused on the notion of who “owns” the use of the word holocaust. . . . I see this as being part of a longstanding tradition in art of addressing inequality, injustice, and intolerance, reaching as far back as Goya’s time-honored painting The Third of May 1808. As a Black Indian, the oppression I have experienced is due, in part, to the ongoing power we subscribe to hate words. I created this work to present a multilayered approach to the demystification of racial, ethnic, and gender-based discrimination.
–James Montford

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