{"id":51,"date":"2025-04-17T12:42:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T16:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/?p=51"},"modified":"2025-09-08T15:03:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T19:03:56","slug":"the-confederacy-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/2025\/04\/the-confederacy-alabama\/","title":{"rendered":"The Confederacy: Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Robert Indiana<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>American, 1928-2018<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>The Confederacy: Alabama, <\/em><\/strong><strong>1965<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Oil on canvas, 70 x 60 inches<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Gift of Walter A. and Dawn Clark Netsch<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1982.185<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"866\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/files\/2025\/04\/1982.185-866x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/files\/2025\/04\/1982.185-866x1024.jpg 866w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/files\/2025\/04\/1982.185-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/files\/2025\/04\/1982.185-768x908.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/files\/2025\/04\/1982.185-1300x1536.jpg 1300w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/files\/2025\/04\/1982.185-1733x2048.jpg 1733w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 866px) 100vw, 866px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Robert Indiana\u2019s painting Alabama commemorates the nightmarish events of Selma by surrounding a map of Alabama with the epitaph JUST AS IN THE ANATOMY OF MAN EVERY NATION MUST HAVE ITS HIND PART. Placing Alabama at the center of a target, with Selma marked as the bull\u2019s eye, Indiana makes a simple and direct statement of contempt and shame using a reductive, emphatic sign idiom. His design has the visual potency of an advertisement, poster, product insignia, institutional logo, group emblem, or patriotic banner. Indiana\u2019s adaptation of a promotional format typifies a new approach to history painting, one quite distinctive from European tradition of representational documentation or the style of American social commentary art in the 1930s and 1940s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Robert Indiana American, 1928-2018 The Confederacy: Alabama, 1965 Oil on canvas, 70 x 60 inches Gift of Walter A. and Dawn Clark Netsch 1982.185 Robert <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/2025\/04\/the-confederacy-alabama\/\" title=\"The Confederacy: Alabama\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1564,"featured_media":96,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fall-25","category-spring-25"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1564"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}