Brooks Turner: Pedagogy and Propaganda

21 September 2023
A collage by artist Brooks Turner featuring a black & white photo of four men standing beside a sign reading "Here Fell Henry Ness. Member of local 574, Veteran of the World War and martyr of labor's struggle. Shot down by police. Died July 21, 1934." The figures of the men are cut out and displayed on a floral background copied from "The Unicorn Rests in a Garden" (from the Unicorn Tapestries), 1495–1505

Pedagogy and Propaganda: New and Recent Work by Brooks Turner • Sept. 21–Nov. 15, 2023 in the Perlman Teaching Museum. Artist, writer, and educator Brooks Turner questions narratives which are fixed in the archives of libraries, museums, and textbooks. His research engages histories of fascism in his home state of Minnesota, often exploring the racial, political, and economic turbulence of these events and their relevance today.

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