{"id":352,"date":"2020-12-09T18:13:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T18:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.06.24-PM.png"},"modified":"2020-12-15T19:12:26","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T19:12:26","slug":"screen-shot-2020-12-09-at-1-06-24-pm","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/screen-shot-2020-12-09-at-1-06-24-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Alison Saar, Compton Nocturne"},"author":1151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"class_list":["post-352","attachment","type-attachment","status-inherit","hentry"],"description":{"rendered":"

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Alison Saar is a multiracial, LA based sculpture, printer, and installation artist whose work relates to themes of the African diaspora, the way the body connects to identity, and the experience of powerful women complicated by race and gender. Compton Nocturne is part of her exhibition Mirror, Mirror, a collection of prints over the last 35 years, which explore self reflection as well as the relationship between identity and society. Many of the subjects in her work are informed by Greek, Roman, and African mythology. This piece is a re-interpretation of Saar\u2019s sculpture, Compton Nocturne, which illustrates power in a woman reminiscent of an African deity. The image is based on Duke Ellington\u2019s jazz song, \u201cHarlem Nocturne,\u201d known for its sultry qualities which connects to the bold depiction of the female nude in Saar\u2019s print. Saar substituted Harlem with Compton, a predominantly African-American community in LA. The blue hues further the nocturnal aspect of the painting. Saar explains that the spirit bottle tree, originally a West African tradition used to lure evil spirits into upturned bottles, represents \u201cher dreams that are being captured as opposed to wicked spirits that are trying to trespass.\u201d The tree composed of her own dreams stemming from her head protects her despite her vulnerable nude position. <\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"

Saar, Alison
\nCompton Nocturne
\n2012
\nColor Lithograph
\n19 \u00bc x 25 in
\nNational Museum of Women in the Arts,
\nPromised gift of Steven Scott, Baltimore
\nCompton Nocturne
\n2012
\nColor Lithograph
\n19 \u00bc x 25 in
\nNational Museum of Women in the Arts, Promised gift of Steven Scott, Baltimore<\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"","media_type":"image","mime_type":"image\/png","media_details":{"width":1824,"height":1412,"file":"2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.06.24-PM.png","sizes":{"medium":{"file":"Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.06.24-PM-300x232.png","width":300,"height":232,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.06.24-PM-300x232.png"},"large":{"file":"Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.06.24-PM-1024x793.png","width":1024,"height":793,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.06.24-PM-1024x793.png"},"thumbnail":{"file":"Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.06.24-PM-150x150.png","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.06.24-PM-150x150.png"},"medium_large":{"file":"Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.06.24-PM-768x595.png","width":768,"height":595,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.06.24-PM-768x595.png"},"timeline-express":{"file":"Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.06.24-PM-350x120.png","width":350,"height":120,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.06.24-PM-350x120.png"},"timeline-express-thumbnail":{"file":"Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.06.24-PM-200x120.png","width":200,"height":120,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.06.24-PM-200x120.png"},"1536x1536":{"file":"Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.06.24-PM-1536x1189.png","width":1536,"height":1189,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.06.24-PM-1536x1189.png"},"twentyseventeen-featured-image":{"file":"Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.06.24-PM-1824x1200.png","width":1824,"height":1200,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.06.24-PM-1824x1200.png"},"twentyseventeen-thumbnail-avatar":{"file":"Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.06.24-PM-100x100.png","width":100,"height":100,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.06.24-PM-100x100.png"},"full":{"file":"Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.06.24-PM.png","width":1824,"height":1412,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.06.24-PM.png"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":null,"source_url":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.06.24-PM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/attachment"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}]}}