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Romare Bearden's 'Black Odyssey' Puts A Modern Harlem Twist On Classical Mythology - The Huffington Post  | By Priscilla Frank

11/20/2014

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If you happen to be studying at New York's Columbia University this fall you, like many other students around the world, will be assigned to read Homer's "Odyssey," that epic epic poem about a flawed hero's journey home.

However, unlike most other students studying the classic, you'll have the remarkable privilege of digesting the text alongside Romare Bearden's "Black Odyssey," a collage series dating back to the 1970s. His jagged-edged color fields create a stream of images, 20 collages in total. The modern interpretation of the ancient Greek myth reveals that perhaps Ithaca and Harlem aren't that far apart after all.

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Logan Clodd-Blount
12/6/2014 02:16:31 am

This wa s really interesting to see a style of art such as this. This seems to be an original style , and i would like to try something like that.

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Emilio Salcedo
12/6/2014 02:20:34 am

I like the Bearden's display of his life to the 'Black Odyssey' because he related it to the trial the character in the book faced.

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Janessa Rivera
12/6/2014 02:20:51 am

The art work we saw looked like if they were a collage and i thought it was cool how the artist used different pieces of paper to show the story.

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Jahqyad Austin
12/6/2014 02:36:13 am

To piece together a story and tie it into your own life is the work of a smart man,ROMARE BEARDEN is one of those men.

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