{"id":9839,"date":"2010-10-31T03:54:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T03:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=9839"},"modified":"2015-03-08T19:24:50","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T19:24:50","slug":"sniffing-elephant-bones-the-poetics-of-race-in-the-art-of-ellen-gallagher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=9839","title":{"rendered":"Sniffing Elephant Bones: The Poetics of Race in the Art of Ellen Gallagher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/cal.1996.0074\" target=\"_blank\">Sniffing Elephant Bones: The Poetics of Race in the Art of Ellen Gallagher<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/callaloo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Callaloo<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/callaloo\/toc\/cal19.2.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 19, Number 2<\/a>, Spring 1996<br \/>\nE-ISSN: 1080-6512 Print ISSN: 0161-2492<br \/>\npages 337-339<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/cal.1996.0074\" target=\"_blank\">10.1353\/cal.1996.0074<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faculty.uci.edu\/profile.cfm?faculty_id=4658\" target=\"_blank\">Judith Wilson<\/a><\/strong>, Former Assistant Professor of African American Studies, Assistant Professor of Art History and Assistant Professor of Visual Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Irvine<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What she said once, unforgettable, was that the stereotype is the distance between ourselves\u2014our real, our black bodies\u2014&amp; the image<\/p>\n<p>[T]he greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; &#8230; for to use metaphors well is to see the similarity in dissimilars. \u2014Aristotle, <em>The Poetics Image <\/em><\/p>\n<p>These three sites have been crucially linked in recent cultural theory and practice. Thirty years old and a native of New England, painter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/art21\/artists\/gallagher\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ellen Gallagher<\/a> has been described as working &#8220;in the gap between image and body (the gap that is language).&#8221; That understanding of her project, of course, simultaneously echoes and significantly revises a late modernist agenda epitomized by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Rauschenberg\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Rauschenberg<\/a>: &#8220;Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in that gap between the two.)&#8221; Post-pop, post-painterly, and post-minimal, Gallagher operates in a space cleared by contemporary feminist, semiotic, black, and cultural studies discourses. Yet her art negotiates these busy intersections in a starkly independent fashion. In conversation, she readily shifts from charting the ancestry of Walt Disney&#8217;s Mickey Mouse (whose origins, she&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sniffing Elephant Bones: The Poetics of Race in the Art of Ellen Gallagher Callaloo Volume 19, Number 2, Spring 1996 E-ISSN: 1080-6512 Print ISSN: 0161-2492 pages 337-339 DOI: 10.1353\/cal.1996.0074 Judith Wilson, Former Assistant Professor of African American Studies, Assistant Professor of Art History and Assistant Professor of Visual Studies University of California, Irvine What she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,8,25],"tags":[4284,4076,4279],"class_list":["post-9839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-women","tag-callaloo","tag-ellen-gallagher","tag-judith-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}