#JAY Z VIDEO HISOTRICAL BEYONCE SERIES#

#JAY Z VIDEO HISOTRICAL BEYONCE SERIES#

“Carrie Mae Weems has a series called Museums 2006, where she’s standing in front of Western museums and she has one where she’s standing outside of the Louvre. Beyoncé’s nude bodysuit and her pose in the “S curve” of the statue draw an obvious parallel to the statue, but Thomas said it wasn’t a surprise since Bey’s birth announcement drew many an Aphrodite comparison. The Venus de Milo, an ancient Greek statue of the goddess Aphrodite, has long been held up as a standard of awe-inducing beauty.

Beyoncé is a part of a tradition of not only black artists and performers, but activists too who find power in imagery like that because it connects them to an African past where there is a narrative of innovation and power.” Venus de Milo YouTube

Museums are very deliberate about not considering Ancient Egypt within the history of African and black art instead, it’s often put together with ancient Greece and Rome, even though ancient Egypt is part of Africa. “I think one way that black artists and performers try to re-narrativize that is with imagery that we associate with ancient Egypt.

“Part of the way the museum represents white supremacy in Western art and Western dominance is through a tracing of the past that sees ancient Greece and ancient Rome as the birthplace of civilization and democracy,” Thomas said.

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