Published in conjunction with the exhibition Betye Saar: extending the frozen moment, held at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Oct. 15, 2005-Jan. 8, 2006; at the Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, Florida, Mar. 18-June 11, 2006; and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Sept. 8-Dec. 3, 2006.
Acknowledgments / James Christen Steward
Artist's statement / Betye Saar
"Lest we forget": the liberating art of Betye Saar / James Christen Steward
Looks and gazes: photographic fragmentation and the found object / Deborah Willis
To/from Los Angeles with Betye Saar / Kellie Jones
Reverencing the mortal: assemblage art as prophetic protest in post-World Warr II California / Richard Cándida Smith
From frozen moment to spectator participation: assemblage and installation in the oeuvre of Betye Saar / Lowery Stokes Sims
Plates and catalogue entries / Sean M. Ulmer, Katharine Derosier Weiss
Mysticism
Ancestry and ritual
Racial imagery and stereotypes
Nostalgia and memory
Aunt Hattie
Colored
Notes to the catalogue entries
Artist's chronology
Selected bibliography
Index
Photo credits.
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Betye Saar : extending the frozen moment by Betye Saar. ISBN 0520246624. Published by University of California Press in 2005. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
