Betye Saar, influential assemblage artist who ‘liberated’ Aunt Jemima, dies at 99
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Betye Saar, a Los Angeles artist who transformed collections of bigoted bric-à-brac into potent works of assemblage that mined the searing history of race in the United States, and whose works influenced generations of artists, has died. She was 99.
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Betye Saar, a Los Angeles artist who transformed collections of bigoted bric-à-brac into potent works of assemblage that mined the searing history of race in the United States, and whose works influenced generations of artists, has died. She was 99.
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