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Carrie Mae Weems

—Gauvin Alexander Bailey

Edited by Aïcha Ben Abed

Inés Katzenstein

Getty Research Journal, No. 20 aspirational artisan and why a heart piercedThe Getty Research Journal presents peer reviewed articles on the visual arts of all cultures, regions, and time periods. Topics often relate to Getty collections, initiatives, and broad research interests. The journal welcomes a diversity of perspectives and methodological approaches, and seeks to include work that expands narratives on global culture. This issue features essays on the remembering and remaking of Second Empire table centerpieces by