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摘要
本文介绍了艺术家活动家弗吉尼亚-杰克逊-凯亚(Virginia Jackson Kiah),她是美国黑人家庭博物馆现象的关键人物。读者将从基娅的这层学术研究及其对人类学领域的贡献中受益,因为她是一位被剥夺了公民权、民权和人权的黑人女性,而她的这种身份又使她成为一位才华横溢的艺术家。因此,弗吉尼亚-杰克逊-凯亚将自己重新塑造成一名艺术家活动家,在种族隔离和民权运动之前,她在艺术领域领导了一场对种族主义的文化反抗。作为一名不属于人类学、艺术批评和分析领域的学者,我从一个讲故事的人的立场出发,运用文化研究方法和内容分析来开展这个项目。我认为,应该更多地关注整个艺术家,而不仅仅是掌握了画笔、颜料、铅笔和画布的人。弗吉尼亚-杰克逊-基亚是一位跨学科的艺术家活动家,她以音乐家、作曲家、歌唱家、钢琴家和艺术教育家的身份审视文化和历史。这个恢复项目利用档案资料和访谈填补了一些空白,重新展现了弗吉尼亚-杰克逊-凯亚作为艺术家和活动家的全貌。
The total picture: Activist artist Virginia Jackson Kiah and the Black house museum beyond the frame
This article presents artist activist Virginia Jackson Kiah as a key figure in the phenomenon of the African American house museum. Readers will benefit from this layer of Kiah scholarship and its contributions to the field of anthropology by looking at a talented artist fueled by her status as a Black woman denied civil, civic, and human rights. Therefore, Virginia Jackson Kiah recreated herself as an artist activist who led a cultural resistance to racism in the arts prior to desegregation and the civil rights movement. As a scholar outside the realm of anthropology, art criticism, and analysis, I approach this project from the stance of a storyteller applying cultural studies methodology and content analysis. I posit that more attention should be given to the total artist—not just the person that had a grasp of brush, paint, pencil, and canvas. Besides her gifts as a painter, little has been written about Virginia Jackson Kiah, the interdisciplinary artist activist who examined culture and history as a musician, composer, singer, pianist, and arts educator. This recovery project fills several voids using archived materials and interviews which recast a total picture of Virginia Jackson Kiah as an artist and activist.
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Museum Anthropology seeks to be a leading voice for scholarly research on the collection, interpretation, and representation of the material world. Through critical articles, provocative commentaries, and thoughtful reviews, this peer-reviewed journal aspires to cultivate vibrant dialogues that reflect the global and transdisciplinary work of museums. Situated at the intersection of practice and theory, Museum Anthropology advances our knowledge of the ways in which material objects are intertwined with living histories of cultural display, economics, socio-politics, law, memory, ethics, colonialism, conservation, and public education.