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Conversations with a Rear View Mirror, Brett Flanigan, 2019
Oil on linen 60 x 72 in. (152.4 x 182.88 cm)
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1.01: FIRE IN THE HOLE
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Alison Watt (British, b. 1965), Pears. Oil on canvas, 60 x 71 in.
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Joan Mitchell (American, 1925-1992), GARDEN PARTY, 1961-62. Oil on canvas, 164.5 x 130.2 cm
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We live at a moment in some ways not unlike the 1890s and early twentieth century, when state governments, with the acquiescence of the Supreme Court, stripped black men of the right to vote and effectively nullified the constitutional promise of equality. “Principles which we all thought to have been firmly and permanently settled,” Frederick Douglass observed, were “boldly assaulted and overthrown.” As history shows, progress is not necessarily linear or permanent. But neither is retrogression.      By themselves, the constitutional amendments that emerged from the Civil War cannot address all the legacies of slavery. Sumner remarked of the Thirteenth Amendment that rewriting the Constitution was not an end in itself but “an incident in the larger struggle for freedom and equality.” But the Reconstruction amendments remain, in the words of one Republican newspaper, “a declaration of popular rights.”  They retain unused latent power that, in a different political environment, may yet be employed to implement in new ways the Reconstruction vision of equal citizenship for all.
Eric Foner, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
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The growth of his power and fame was matched, in my imagination, by the degree of the punishment I would have liked to inflict on him. Thus, at first, I would have been content with an electoral defeat, a cooling of public enthusiasm. Later I already required his imprisonment; still later, his exile to some distant, flat island with a single palm tree, which, like a black asterisk, refers one to the bottom of an eternal hell made of solitude, disgrace, and helplessness. Now, at last, nothing but his death could satisfy me.
Vladimir Nabokov, Tyrants Destroyed
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Georgia O'Keeffe, Fig, 1924
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So how do you get to be the king?
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Louise Bourgeois - from the No series, 1973. 
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He's not gonna remember something you said that long ago.
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