The black figure has always been a subject of entertainment in popular culture, as well as an image to sell things. In some ways, that’s how people relate to us—because they’ve seen us on television.
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Derrick Adams
Blue Figure/Woman with Clothes Blowing in Wind by Gregory Botts
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Gregory Botts, Blue Figure/Women with Clothes Blowing in Wind, acrylic, oil, and wax on canvas, 116 × 116 inches.
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Originally published in
BOMB 16,
Summer 1986
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