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Estimate $1000-$1500"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"Drawing on scenes of everyday life as well as classical mythology, Margaret Burroughs explores and asserts African and African American identity. <EM>Black Venus</EM> belongs to a series of linocuts that Burroughs completed after studying at the Taller de Grafi ca Popular (Workshop for Popular Art), a cooperative print studio in Mexico that focused on the social, political, and economic struggles of the Mexican people. Here, Burroughs portrays Venus emerging from a scallop shell, recasting the goddess of love as an African woman. Burroughs chose to affi rm the beauty and strength of African women just as the Civil Rights movement was gathering steam, and it is possible to see her work in light of Rosa Parks’s act of defiance and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, both of which occurred in 1955.","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Campus Voices","textentryhtml":"<p>In <em>Black Venus</em>, artist and activist Margaret Burroughs inserted an image of Black beauty into the Western imagination. The composition draws heavily from, and is a response to, Thomas Stothard’s <em>Voyage of the Sable Venus</em>, which depicts similar figures in a satirical, more European style. Both works are based on Sandro Botticelli’s, yet each replaces Botticelli’s fair-skinned, lighthaired embodiment of the goddess of love with a Black woman. The centrality of Burroughs’s Venus forces traditionally powerful (white, male) forms like Poseidon, god of the sea, to the periphery—and almost to invisibility. The result is a central, starkly contrasted figure that dares to challenge familiar, but narrow,<br>conceptions of beauty and power. </p><p><br><strong><em>Amy Amatya, Class of 2021</em></strong><br></p>","remarks":"K2 Corridor: Transforming Landscapes: Memory and Slavery across the Americas"}],"datebegin":1957,"sortnumber":"2009   28","published_date":"2026-04-07 02:00:29.408524","objectid":56309,"dimensions":"block: 35.6 × 28 cm (14 × 11 in.)\r\nsheet: 46.7 x 37.9 cm. (18 3/8 x 14 15/16 in.)","on_view":false}