[archive] Sue Coe – From Ambassadress, S
Sue Coe – From Ambassadress, S
From Ambassadress, S #2
Major Retrospective for Groundbreaking Artist and Printmaker Käthe Kollwitz in MoMA
In Sharpening the Scythe, one of Käthe Kollwitz’s most powerful prints, an older peasant woman grips the blade of her farming tool, preparing it not for cutting crops, but to take part in a revolt. In this short animated video, watch how Kollwitz arrived at this potent image using her confidence as a draftsman and printmaker.
From Ambassadress, S #3
The Young Person’s Illustrated Guide to American Fascism
“Prescient … searing social-political art.” —The New York Times
Sue Coe is an artist, animal rights activist, and anti-fascist. She has also peered inside factory farms, zoos, prisons, and refugee camps. Coe’s prints, drawings and paintings are found in many major art museums, and her illustrations have been published in The New York Times, The Nation and many other magazine and books. Read more
Stephen F. Eisenman is Professor Emeritus of Art History at Northwestern University and the author of a dozen books including 19th C, Art – A Critical History (Thames and Hudson, 1994), The Abu Ghraib Effect (Reaktion, 2007), and The Cry of Nature: Art and the Making of Animal Rights (Reaktion, 2015). He is also art critic and columnist for Counterpunch. He’s co-founder of the environmental justice non-profit, Anthropocene Alliance.