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From the Ted Talk by Thelma Golden: How art gives shape to cultural change

Unscramble the Blue Letters


I'm shniowg you two works, one on the right by Leon Golub, one on the left by Robert Colescott. And in the course of the exhibition — which was contentious, controversial and uttmailely, for me, life-changing in my sense of what art could be — a woman came up to me on the gallery floor to express her concern about the nuatre of how powerful iamegs could be and how we understood each other. And she pointed to the work on the left to tell me how problematic this image was, as it related, for her, to the idea of how black people had been represented. And she pointed to the image on the right as an example, to me, of the kind of dignity that nedeed to be potreyrad to work against those images in the media. She then assigned these wokrs racial identities, basically saying to me that the work on the right, clearly, was made by a black artist, the work on the left, clearly, by a wtihe artist, when, in effect, that was the opposite case: Bob Colescott, African-American artist; Leon Golub, a white artist. The point of that for me was to say — in that space, in that mnmoet — that I really, more than anything, wanted to urnntdsaed how images could work, how images did work, and how artists provided a space bgiegr than one that we could imagine in our day-to-day lives to work through these images.

Open Cloze


I'm _______ you two works, one on the right by Leon Golub, one on the left by Robert Colescott. And in the course of the exhibition — which was contentious, controversial and __________, for me, life-changing in my sense of what art could be — a woman came up to me on the gallery floor to express her concern about the ______ of how powerful ______ could be and how we understood each other. And she pointed to the work on the left to tell me how problematic this image was, as it related, for her, to the idea of how black people had been represented. And she pointed to the image on the right as an example, to me, of the kind of dignity that ______ to be _________ to work against those images in the media. She then assigned these _____ racial identities, basically saying to me that the work on the right, clearly, was made by a black artist, the work on the left, clearly, by a _____ artist, when, in effect, that was the opposite case: Bob Colescott, African-American artist; Leon Golub, a white artist. The point of that for me was to say — in that space, in that ______ — that I really, more than anything, wanted to __________ how images could work, how images did work, and how artists provided a space ______ than one that we could imagine in our day-to-day lives to work through these images.

Solution


  1. images
  2. works
  3. bigger
  4. understand
  5. ultimately
  6. nature
  7. moment
  8. needed
  9. showing
  10. white
  11. portrayed

Original Text


I'm showing you two works, one on the right by Leon Golub, one on the left by Robert Colescott. And in the course of the exhibition — which was contentious, controversial and ultimately, for me, life-changing in my sense of what art could be — a woman came up to me on the gallery floor to express her concern about the nature of how powerful images could be and how we understood each other. And she pointed to the work on the left to tell me how problematic this image was, as it related, for her, to the idea of how black people had been represented. And she pointed to the image on the right as an example, to me, of the kind of dignity that needed to be portrayed to work against those images in the media. She then assigned these works racial identities, basically saying to me that the work on the right, clearly, was made by a black artist, the work on the left, clearly, by a white artist, when, in effect, that was the opposite case: Bob Colescott, African-American artist; Leon Golub, a white artist. The point of that for me was to say — in that space, in that moment — that I really, more than anything, wanted to understand how images could work, how images did work, and how artists provided a space bigger than one that we could imagine in our day-to-day lives to work through these images.

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Important Words


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