"If Black Lives Matter, they deserve to be in paintings:" Kehinde Wiley's Lamentation as Ontological Resurrection.

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Abstract: This essay won or received an honorable mention for The Boothe Prize for excellence in first-year writing. The Boothe Prize recognizes and rewards outstanding expository and argumentative writing by undergraduate students in the first-year Writing and Rhetoric classes, Integrated Learning Environments, and Thinking Matters programs. In each award-winning essay, student writers demonstrate clarity of argument, excellent integration of research-based evidence, and compelling prose style. In this essay, Alexis Lefft analyzes Kehinde Wiley's art exhibition, Lamentation, commenting on its ties to theology and the questions it raises about the value of museums and the treatment of Black Americans.

Type of resource	text
Date created	June 2018

Author	Lefft, Alexis
Advisor	O'Keeffe, Jamie

Subject	Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Subject	Kehinde Wiley
Subject	Christ
Subject	Black
Subject	art
Genre	Article

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/bq825dx0223

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Preferred Citation: Lefft, Alexis and O'Keeffe, Jamie. (2017). "If Black Lives Matter, they deserve to be in paintings:" Kehinde Wiley's Lamentation as Ontological Resurrection. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/bq825dx0223

Boothe Prize Winners, Stanford University

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