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The 20Th Century in American

By cjohnson#1

  • Emma Amos (American Painter)

    Emma Amos (American Painter)
    Painter, printmaker, and weaver Emma Amos was born in 1937 in Atlanta, Georgia, where her parents owned a drugstore. She began painting and drawing when she was six. At age sixteen, after attending segregated public schools in Atlanta, she entered the five-year program at Antioch University in Yellow Springs, Ohio. She spent her fourth year abroad at the London Central School of Art, studying printmaking, painting, and weaving.

  • Lorna Simpson (American Photographer)

    Lorna Simpson (American Photographer)
    Lorna Simpson was one of a group of artists who became well known in the 1980s for exploring themes and ideas relating to identity politics in their work. Identity politics focuses on the lives and experience of those who are often arginalized in society such as Black people women and gay people. Marginalised means pushed to the side forgotten about or not treated as important. Identity politics aims to make others aware of the issues and unfairness that these arginalized people have to face.