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Item: Pocahontas' Underwear
1985
Object, 31 x 25 cm.
Materials: feathers, beads, fabric, fasteners
Collection: Private Collection, Belgium.
"Every place I go in Europe, the children like me, and to be nice to me they give me drawings of Pocahontas because they have just seen the movie. And I don’t like the movie Pocahontas. It is very much against me. It’s a movie that denies my history in very urgent ways, but it’s also a movie that continues to implant a Hollywood definition of me that is so strong nowadays that I can’t address the issue.
I cannot go to every art opening in Italy and once more explain that not all Indians are from New Mexico, that some Indians have blue eyes and a thousand other stories. I can’t defend a reality that everyone knows is not the reality because everyone knows that the Hollywood reality is the reality." [full text here]
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Jimmie Durham – A Matter ...
25 May 2012 - 18 November 2012.
In the spring of 2012, the M HKA brought a major retrospective of the work of Jimmie Durham. The US-born artist settled permanently in Europe -
Pocahontas and the Little...
10 October 1988 - 19 October 1988.
“The story of Pocahontas as written by her husband John Rolfe was taken whole-cloth from a book by Richard Hakluyt, published in London in 16
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Jimmie Durham 1980 - 1993
In the period between 1973 and 1979 Jimmie Durham was full-time involved with the American Indian Movement and did not make art. He was the d
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"Artists now work with what is called conceptual methods and supposedly don’t use objects. But you can’t not use objects. A TV monitor is an
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