Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.
Coffee Makes You Black, (c. 2005)
19 x 12 1/2 in.
48.3 x 31.8 cm.
48.3 x 31.8 cm.
Gordo, AL: Kennedy Prints
Signed by Kennedy.
588
Monochrome broadside. The poster's provocative statement - a riff on an aphorism - is made all the more so by the stamp of a stereotypically racist depiction of a Black...
Monochrome broadside. The poster's provocative statement - a riff on an aphorism - is made all the more so by the stamp of a stereotypically racist depiction of a Black person within a star at the bottom of the sheet. This stamp does considerable work to establish the complexity of the deceptively simple statement above it, moving it from triviality to irony, and a meditation upon the insidious racial (and racist) assumptions consciously or unconsciously couched in American life. Staple holes to corners, else fine.
