The Intimacies of Four Continents Kevin Beasley Reproduced on the occasion of

Reproduced on the occasion of the ICA 2010 Gala by kind permission of the Hammer Museum

75" total length

Employing the language of museum display

distinctly of its time

Half gold mirrored top 40W/120V bulb included

The Intimacies of Four Continents Kevin Beasley Reproduced on the occasion ofLisa Lowe In this uniquely interdisciplinary work, Lisa Lowe examines the relationships between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, exploring the links between colonialism, slavery, imperial trades and Western liberalism. Reading across archives, canons, and continents, Lowe connects the liberal narrative of freedom overcoming slavery to the expansion of Anglo American empire, observing that