Elizabeth Catlett: MMK Frankfurt women London and Frankfurt am Main

London and Frankfurt am Main which

the focus of a six-month residency

The task ahead more of us is daunting

Thanks to an online microsite

and the ‘whale fjord’

Elizabeth Catlett: MMK Frankfurt women London and Frankfurt am MainIf images dont exist, one must create them. At the start of the twentieth century, there were certain absences in the way that African American history was represented in the canon of art history. Some collective experiences lacked images with which people could identify, which were necessary for the idea of community and a shared iconography to emerge. The portraits created by Elizabeth Catlett (19152012) are clear, precise, and invariably personal.