{"id":1583,"date":"2019-02-14T12:26:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T17:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/?p=1583"},"modified":"2019-02-14T12:26:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T17:26:22","slug":"alabama-a-look-inside-40-at-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/2019\/02\/alabama-a-look-inside-40-at-40\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama: A Look Inside 40 at 40"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Robert Indiana (American, 1928-2018); The Confederacy: Alabama, 1965; Oil on canvas; Gift of Walter and Dawn Clark Netsch; 1982.185<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Confederacy: Alabama <\/span><\/i>(1965), on display in MUAM\u2019s <\/span>40 for 40: Celebrating 40 Years<\/span><\/i><\/a> exhibition, is a popular piece in MUAM\u2019s permanent collection. The piece itself has traveled to over 25 museums all over the world, including France, Germany, and Japan. Part of Robert Indiana\u2019s Confederacy Series, <\/span>Alabama<\/span><\/i> is considered the most famous and popular of the four-part series. These works were created in response to the horrific truths African Americans endured during the Civil Rights movement. In the series, Indiana created a work for four Confederacy states (Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, and Louisiana) and included his own powerful words in response to what he was learning in the news.\u00a0Selma, Alabama, was the site of “Bloody Sunday,” a fateful march to Montgomery that took place on March 7, 1965. Approximately 600 civil rights marchers were attacked with clubs, tear gas, and dogs by state and local law officers before they were able to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge. This was one of three marches from Selma that eventually led to the passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Robert Indiana (1928-2018) was a renowned American Pop artist known for his catchy word and phrase works. Included in his portfolio, Indiana produced the infamous <\/span>LOVE<\/span><\/i> screen prints which later evolved into free-standing public sculptures. Indiana created the <\/span>LOVE<\/span><\/i> prints to be used for the Museum of Modern Art\u2019s holiday card and was later picked up by the United States Postal Service as a national stamp. He prided himself on taking mundane words, words many people use freely and without merit, and transposing them into confrontational works meant to make the viewer think. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Today, these sculptures are found in major cities all over the world. Many people view them as site-specific works meant to engage visitors, allowing for the perfect photo-op and \u2018Instagramable\u2019 picture. <\/span><\/p>\n

To learn more about this work, Robert Indiana, and the selfie-craze site-specific art has had on present-day culture, come to Dr. Dell\u2019Aria\u2019s lecture on February 21 at 5:50pm at MUAM<\/a>!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Check out where Alabama: The Confederacy <\/i>has been!<\/strong><\/p>\n