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Quarded View Analysis

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In another work of institutional critique, Quarded View (1991), Wilson displays life- size headless statues of museum guards, forcing viewers to ponder directly those very

institutional subjects who are rendered invisible by the dynamics of the gaze at work in the museum. Whereas many of the guards in U.S. art museums are black and Latino,

most of the patrons are white. This installation foregrounded the issue of race in rela- tion to labor and marketing practices of museums. These works of figurative sculpture

disrupted conventions of viewing by forcing museumgoers to notice the human pres- ence of living guards, the very figures we are likely to ignore when we focus intently on

the artworks the museum has displayed for our appreciation

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