The Erosion of History: Samantha Page on Hung Lius Migrant Mother
The Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute presents In the Foreground: Object Studies:\xa0 short meditations that introduce you to a single work of art seen through the eyes of an art historian.
Samantha Page (Clark Art Institute)\xa0 explores how Hung Liu\u2019s painting Migrant Mother (2015) reimagines Dorothea Lange\u2019s iconic Depression-era photograph; here the materiality of paint draws attention to layers of mediation and imbues the image\u2019s subjects with renewed agency.\xa0