Isamu Noguchi pivoted to set design after critics like Henry McBride panned his 1934 sculpture of one of these events. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these events that inspired Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller’s sculpture of Mary Turner. Some Bright Morning is the first in Melvin Edwards’s series of metal assemblages titled for these events that has spanned over 50 years.
ANSWER: lynchings [prompt on executions or hangings or killings or murders or deaths]
[10e] An empty noose and a huddled figure appear above the simple caption “There were lynchings” in the 15th panel of Jacob Lawrence’s series depicting this title period.
ANSWER: the Great Migration [accept The Migration Series]
[10m] Ken Gonzales-Day digitally altered photographs of lynchings in a series titled for this action. Jasper Johns added a caption and a gilded frame to a conceptual work in which Robert Rauschenberg did this title action.
ANSWER: erasing [or word forms like erased; accept erasing a Willem de Kooning drawing; accept Erased Lynchings or Erased de Kooning Drawing]
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