Whitey Ford
10-20-2019, 06:50 PM
Urban warrior in Nikes and a hoodie leads charge against white orthodoxy
Conversely, Wiley’s Rumors of War effectively subverts entrenched authority by adhering to the strictest orthodoxy. A towering bronze rider on horseback, it will be on display through November, above the crowds of Times Square.
https://i.imgur.com/wdPWNI2.jpg
Though Wiley’s urban warrior in his Nikes and hoodie mimics a statue of the Confederate general Jeb Stuart in Richmond, Virginia, it also confronts the statue of Theodore Roosevelt outside the American Museum of Natural History a couple of miles away. The Roosevelt statue casts the 26th president astride a steed, in the role of “great white father”. Commandingly assuming his burden, he leads a Native American and black man, half-clothed and on foot, towards the sunrise and civilization.
Wiley’s work also answers the column erected 20 blocks south of Roosevelt in New York, at Columbus Circle, to glorify the very founder of America’s imperialist criminality.
https://archive.is/CmxKR#selection-1789.0-1805.67
Conversely, Wiley’s Rumors of War effectively subverts entrenched authority by adhering to the strictest orthodoxy. A towering bronze rider on horseback, it will be on display through November, above the crowds of Times Square.
https://i.imgur.com/wdPWNI2.jpg
Though Wiley’s urban warrior in his Nikes and hoodie mimics a statue of the Confederate general Jeb Stuart in Richmond, Virginia, it also confronts the statue of Theodore Roosevelt outside the American Museum of Natural History a couple of miles away. The Roosevelt statue casts the 26th president astride a steed, in the role of “great white father”. Commandingly assuming his burden, he leads a Native American and black man, half-clothed and on foot, towards the sunrise and civilization.
Wiley’s work also answers the column erected 20 blocks south of Roosevelt in New York, at Columbus Circle, to glorify the very founder of America’s imperialist criminality.
https://archive.is/CmxKR#selection-1789.0-1805.67