Betye Saar: Keeping it Clean

Betye Saar: Keepin’ It Clean features the washboard assemblages of seminal contemporary artist Betye Saar (b. 1926). Her ongoing series explores the washboard as a crossroad of race, gender, class, and labor and an emblem of America's unresolved legacy of slavery and oppression. Our exclusive catalogue includes essays by the curator, a renowned scholar of African American art history, and the artist herself as well as color reproductions of all objects in the exhibition on view at the New-York Historical Society November 2, 2018 - May 27, 2019. Forewords by Suzanne Isken, Executive Director, Craft & Folk Art Museum, and Louise Mirrer, President and CEO, New-York Historical Society. Introduction by Holly Jerger, Exhibitions Curator, Craft & Folk Art Museum, and essays by Stephen Nelson, University of California, Los Angeles, and Betye Saar. 60 pages paperback Betye Saar is widely recognized as one of the most distinguished figures in American contemporary art. A key figure in