Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture

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A major new survey of American sculpture, exploring how it both reflects and redefines concepts of race and identity in the United States.When viewing a sculpture, how quickly do we tend to assign race to the subject? The three-dimensional qualities of sculpture give it a distinct advantage over other art forms in capturing a subject’s likeness, and our minds can swiftly conjure a body and racialize it from the most minimal of prompts. The Shape of Power examines American sculpture from the mid-nineteenth…