Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor" - Andrew Kong Knight
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor" artwork by Andrew Kong Knight.
Poster version of this artwork in the permanent collection at the Oakland Museum of California.
collections.museumca.org/?q=collection-item/2010548194
More info: andrewkongknight.com/
Artwork Review:
"At this juncture, Proposition 187 reemerges through a focus on Liberty. At the San Jose Center for Latino Arts, el Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana, Inc. (Movement of Latin American Art and Culture/ MACLA) mounted a juried exhibition entitled "Artists Respond to Proposition 187." Running from June 7 through July 15, 1995, the show featured twenty-five selected individual artists, one artists' group, and one guest artist. In their "Curatorial Statement," the Curatorial Committee states that "the artists have reacted to this event in our political history with anger, outrage, cynicism, sorrow, compassion and defiance."
Artist Andrew Kong Knight brings all of the sentiments the curators identify. His uncompromising print, "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor" (1994). incorporates within a caption these compassionate titular words from Lazarus's poem, "The New Colossus." Printed more conspicuously are two declarative, exhortative statements: "DEPORT KING WILSON / VOTE No 187." Governor Wilson, wearing royal ermine and crowned like a king or Lady Liberty, manipulates the victims of 187 as if they're pawns in a chess game being played on a game board over which the caption is superimposed. Appropriately, two strands of barbed wire and something resembling a curved blade appears overhead, almost mimicking the threat of a guillotine. Nothing approaching Enrique Chagoya's "hidden transcript" would seem iconographically or semiotically probable in such an explicit and overt context."
- Victor Alejandro Sorell
Excerpt from the book: Culture Across Borders: Mexican Immigration & Popular Culture
Chapter Three: "Telling Images Bracket the 'Broken-Promis(d) Land,'" The Culture of Immigration and the Immigration of Culture across Borders." Pages 129 - 130
by Victor Alejandro Sorell
Edited by David Maciel, Mar’a Herrera-Sobek
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor" - Andrew Kong Knight
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor" artwork by Andrew Kong Knight.
Poster version of this artwork in the permanent collection at the Oakland Museum of California.
collections.museumca.org/?q=collection-item/2010548194
More info: andrewkongknight.com/
Artwork Review:
"At this juncture, Proposition 187 reemerges through a focus on Liberty. At the San Jose Center for Latino Arts, el Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana, Inc. (Movement of Latin American Art and Culture/ MACLA) mounted a juried exhibition entitled "Artists Respond to Proposition 187." Running from June 7 through July 15, 1995, the show featured twenty-five selected individual artists, one artists' group, and one guest artist. In their "Curatorial Statement," the Curatorial Committee states that "the artists have reacted to this event in our political history with anger, outrage, cynicism, sorrow, compassion and defiance."
Artist Andrew Kong Knight brings all of the sentiments the curators identify. His uncompromising print, "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor" (1994). incorporates within a caption these compassionate titular words from Lazarus's poem, "The New Colossus." Printed more conspicuously are two declarative, exhortative statements: "DEPORT KING WILSON / VOTE No 187." Governor Wilson, wearing royal ermine and crowned like a king or Lady Liberty, manipulates the victims of 187 as if they're pawns in a chess game being played on a game board over which the caption is superimposed. Appropriately, two strands of barbed wire and something resembling a curved blade appears overhead, almost mimicking the threat of a guillotine. Nothing approaching Enrique Chagoya's "hidden transcript" would seem iconographically or semiotically probable in such an explicit and overt context."
- Victor Alejandro Sorell
Excerpt from the book: Culture Across Borders: Mexican Immigration & Popular Culture
Chapter Three: "Telling Images Bracket the 'Broken-Promis(d) Land,'" The Culture of Immigration and the Immigration of Culture across Borders." Pages 129 - 130
by Victor Alejandro Sorell
Edited by David Maciel, Mar’a Herrera-Sobek