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Renée Stout explains the personal and found objects included in her life-size sculpture “Fetish #2,” 1988, mixed media (plaster body cast), height: 64 in. (Dallas Museum of Art, ©Renée Stout, Washington, D.C.). This interview was recorded in conjunction with the 1989 exhibition “Black Art, Ancestral Legacy: The African Impulse in African-American Art” organized by the Dallas Museum of Art.
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