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Physical Object
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Object ID
99.08
Title
<em>Number 1 Fan #2</em>
Date
1995
Artist
Amalia Amaki
b. 1949
Born in Atlanta, GA
Original Format
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Sculpture
Medium
Mixed media on wood
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48 x 30 inches
Description
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Amalia Amaki crafted this large vertical sculpture into the shape of a fan with buttons, white floral patterned fabric, and simulated pearls. There are two parts to the piece. In the center of the top portion of the work is a blue tinted photograph of Blues singer, Billie Holiday. Surrounding the portrait are rings of clear and white buttons, which form an oval in the center of the work. The corners are diagonal and decorated with buttons and simulated pearls. The lower portion of the fan, or the "handle," features two photographs of women and is decorated with buttons and simulated pearls. One of the photos is tinted red while the other is black and white. Above the red tinted photograph, Amilia included a piece of jewelry with the monogram HAJ. Her sculpture is set against framed black fabric and is under a plexi glass case.
Exhibition Label
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Amaki's art critically examines the representation of African-American life and culture, of women in particular. She finds vintage photographs of her subjects at flea markets or appropriates images from mass media--such as the widely circulated 1947 photograph of Blues singer Billie Holliday at the center of this work. She surrounds these pictures of women with decorative arrangements of seemingly innocuous symbols of domesticity like beads and fabric that, in the context of African-American history, make subtle reference to servant's work. Buttons in particular hold many associations for the artist. "There's all this stuff I link with the buttons," she said in a recent interview. "Especially used buttons, the idea of being touched by all these unknown hands--who knows how many hands touched a single button? At the same time, they're very beautiful, ornate, like jewels. They were at one time used as currency. So, there are all these wonderful histories embodied in the buttons."
Credit Line
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Gift of Amalia Amaki
Rights Statement
In Copyright
Publications
Hammond, Leslie King. "Identifying Spaces of Blackness". In <em>Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art</em>, 75. Edited by Angela D. Mack and Stephen G. Hoffius. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. <br /><br />Larson, Judy L. <em>Amalia Amaki: Boxes, Buttons and the Blues</em>. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2005. <br /><br />Robinson, Jontyle Theresa. <em>Bearing Witness; Contemporary Works by African American Woman Artists</em>, 115. New York, NY: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1996.
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Title
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<em>Number 1 Fan #2</em>
Date Created
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1995
Creator
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Amalia Amaki
Type
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Sculpture
Medium
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Mixed media on wood
Source
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Gift of Amalia Amaki
99.08
Provenance
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Given as gift to the M from the artist in 1999
Rights
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In Copyright
Rights Holder
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Amalia Amaki, Post Office Box 42292 Atlanta, GA 30311
Date Copyrighted
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1995
License
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No License
African American
Amalia Amaki
Billie Holliday
Buttons
Collage
Sculpture
Twentieth Century