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Authors, works and languages of the image
Renée Cox
Atlas, 1995
"Atlas", 1995. © Renée Cox.
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Introduction
Through this powerful black-and-white image, Renée Cox appropriates Greek mythology specifically the figure of the Titan Atlas, condemned by Zeus to hold up the celestial heavens for eternity to recontextualize it within the African diaspora and the socio-historical experience of the Black body.
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