Ford Scholar Brent Hayes Edwards provides a deeper look into how Melvin Edwards’s welded sculpture “The Lifted X” captures the turbulence of the civil rights movement in 1965 and memorializes the Black nationalist leader. He asks, “What does it mean for a work this abstract, this opaque, to be a portrait, or to be a memorial?”
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