Object Record
Images
Metadata
Accession Number |
2022.14.00 |
Catalog Number |
2022.14.11 |
Object Name |
Box, Shadow |
Date |
2001 |
Description |
Rajie Cook's "Birth of a Nation" (2001) Assemblage artwork with flag, branch, barbed wire, and egg shell. Appears on page 254 of his monograph, A Vision For My Father (2017). Caption reads, "UN General Assembly Resolution 181 of November 29, 1947, partitioned Palestine into three areas: "Independent Arab and Jewish States and the Special International Regime for the City of Jerusalem." Only Israel, the [so-called] Jewish state, actually came to being." |
Artist |
Cook, Rajie |
Title |
Birth of a Nation |
People |
Cook, Rajie |
Search Terms |
Activist art Arab American art Palestinian Americans Pennsylvania |
Lexicon category |
8: Communication Artifact |