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Book Chapter
From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried
2024
Overview
This chapter illustrates Carrie Mae Weems's life, art, engagement with the Descendant/Lanier daguerreotypes, and the legal implications of her direct action. It focuses on her 1995–96 photo series From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried. The artist's insubordination in the 1990s evolved into a unique collaboration that cast artivism and its practice in a new light. Indeed, Weems's breach of her contract and unflappable reaction to Harvard's litigation threats grew into a magnetic chapter in the history of woman of color artivism, since it employed rule-breaking, civil disobedience, litigation courtship, and protest. It also raised radical insights about the Copyright Act and initiated a dialogue about US property law in the wake of slavery that reached the highest court in Massachusetts and continues to be felt to this day.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Subject
ISBN
9781501775581, 1501775588
