Huger NewsLocal news for Huger, SC continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.Gibbes Museum of Art organized 'Landscape of Slavery The Plantation in American Art'- March 25, 2008 "More than a history of the visual imagery related to the plantation, the show invites one to consider the impact that this imagery has had on race relations for three centuries" Charleston, SC The Gibbes Museum of Art has organized a groundbreaking exhibition entitled Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art to offer a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of ... via Art Knowledge Newshttp://www.topix.net/city/huger-sc/2008/03/gibbes-museum-of-art-organized-landscape-of-sla... Book dissects art that romanticized plantations but ignored slavery- March 23, 2008 "There are so many mixed feelings. We're enthralled by the romanticism and repelled by the brutality." In 2002, George Washington University professor John Michael Vlach wrote a book about paintings of plantations. What he mainly noted was the prominent place the so-called 'big house' occupied in such paintings and the invisibility of the backbone of the plantations -- slaves.'The Planter's Prospect: Privilege and Slavery in Plantation Paintings' immediately grabbed the attention of Angela...http://www.topix.net/city/huger-sc/2008/03/book-dissects-art-that-romanticized-plantations... Man shoots estranged wife, her father before killing himself- March 11, 2008 "That's why she kept calling the police" A man accused of stalking his estranged wife went into her rural South Carolina home and fatally shot her and her father before killing himself, all while his two children were inside, police said. via Tribune-Timeshttp://www.topix.net/city/huger-sc/2008/03/man-shoots-estranged-wife-her-father-before-kil... |