Kerry James Marshall: Momentos

Author: Will Alexander (Author), Cheryl I. Harris (Author), Richard Powell (Author)
Publisher: Renaissance Society
Year: 1998
Pages: 60
ISBN: 978-0941548403

Kerry James Marshall’s exhibition, Mementos, is a requiem to the 60s, a decade synonymous with the Civil Rights Movement.

Conceived as an installation for the Renaissance Society, it features three new paintings, two sculptural components, a video projection and is replete with an angelic pantheon of African-American cultural and political figures who died between 1959 and 1979. Marshall uses the genre of history painting to reread the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement and the whole of African-American History in relation to a very complex present.