Year: 2019

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+ claude monet, fontaine de l'observatorie, france, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Jean-Léon Gérôme, johan christian dahl, Museé d’Orsay, paris, vincent van gogh

My Visit to the Museé d’Orsay

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Last week, I posted about Norwegian artists Johan Christian Dahl, Nikolai Astrup, and Edvard Munch. Today, I want to look at some of my favorite pieces from the Museé d’Orsay in Paris, literally one of the most amazing museums I have ever visited. The Museé d’Orsay officially opened, as a museum, in 1986. However, the building is a former train station which was built … Read More My Visit to the Museé d’Orsay

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+ Chris Claremont, comics, lost cause, marvel comics, robert rodi, rogue, southern studies, the old south, Uncanny X-Men #185, uncanny x-men annual #11, x-men, X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills

The Same Old Same Old: Rogue and Representations of the South

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Chris Claremont and Michael Golden created Rogue in 1981, and she made her debut in Avengers Annual #10. What makes Rogue interesting to me is her place of origin, the fictional Caldecott County in Mississippi. Speaking with the Clarion Ledger in 2016, Claremont told Jacob Threadgill, “I felt, why should Louisiana get all the fun? … (Mississippi) was a place where the racial divisions … Read More The Same Old Same Old: Rogue and Representations of the South

+ comics, cyborg, david f walker, dc comics, deeyah khan, james baldwin, martenze johnson, mos def, nate powell, robert zorroinski, sa'iyda shabazz, solomon northup, techosapiens, todd robertson, victor stone, w.e.b. dubois, white right: meeting the enemy, Yasiin Bey

David Walker’s “Cyborg” and Identity: Part II

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Last post, I started looking at David Walker’s Cyborg, and I noted that his arc, “Unplugged,” is not an origin story about how Victor Stone became Cyborg. Instead, it is an arc chronicling how Victor Stone, as Cyborg, becomes Victor Stone. It’s an arc tracing how Victor Stone becomes visible to his family and society. It’s an arc that, at its core, encapsulates the … Read More David Walker’s “Cyborg” and Identity: Part II

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+ comics, cyborg, david f walker, dc comics, deathlok, dwayne mcduffie, invisible man, luke cage, nighthawk, ralph ellison, victor stone

David F. Walker’s “Cyborg” and Identity

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Last January, I posted a syllabus for a “Comics and Race” course that I constructed. At that time, I had not read any of David F. Walker’s work. A few months later, I read Nighthawk, and I was blown away. Nighthawk led me to other series by Walker such as Shaft, Luke Cage, Power Man and Iron Fist, and his recent work Bitter Root. … Read More David F. Walker’s “Cyborg” and Identity

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Norwegian Art: Dahl, Astrup, and Munch

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Over the past year, I have had the opportunity to visit countless museums in Norway, Poland, France, and Austria. Today, I want to take a moment and share with you some of my favorite pieces from right here in Bergen, Norway. The KODE museums have a large collection of artworks from various ages, but the ones that stuck out to me are from the … Read More Norwegian Art: Dahl, Astrup, and Munch

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