Jean Toche: Impressions from the Rogue Bush Imperial Presidency
Curated by Kristine Stiles, PhD
September 17 - November 29, 2009
Main Gallery, John Hope Franklin Center
Exhibit opening Thursday, September 17 at 5:00PM
Main Gallery, John Hope Franklin Center
Professor Kristine Stiles, Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, curated the exhibition from her extensive archive of art, artists' letters, documents, posters, and ephemera. A 48-page full color catalog designed by Molly Renda featuring an essay by Professor Stiles accompanies the exhibition. In her essay, Stiles writes that, "for over fifty years, Jean Toche has made art from the position of moral and ethical indignation, expressed openly and without reservation against political corruption, social hypocrisy, and human rights abuses throughout the world."
As witnessed in the current show, Toche has lost nothing of his ability to employ art to explore and express critical understandings of global decision-making and social and political acts, especially by the United States. All works in this exhibition are from the year 2004 and focus on the administration of George W. Bush.
For more information on these and other exhibits at the Franklin Center, contact Rob Sikorski, r.sikorski@duke.edu.