{"id":120263,"date":"2014-11-10T10:19:04","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T10:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=120263"},"modified":"2014-11-10T10:19:04","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T10:19:04","slug":"hank-willis-thomas-work-in-societys-subconscious-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=120263","title":{"rendered":"Hank Willis Thomas: Work in Society&#8217;s Subconscious"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-vimeo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/110585783\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/110585783\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hank Willis Thomas: Work in Society\u2019s Subconscious<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/99u\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">99U<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hank Willis Thomas has made it his mission to \u201cnot make sense out of things we think make sense,\u201d challenging our perceptions of identity, history, and symbols. In his 99U talk, Thomas shares what he\u2019s learned from creating his provocative body of work, including the repurposing of iconic brand imagery as a commentary on race and class, particularly in regard to African-American males.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tumblr-crosspostr-linkback\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=54900\" title=\"Go to the original post.\" rel=\"bookmark noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Hank Willis Thomas: Work in Society\u2019s Subconscious<\/a> was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Curious Brain<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hank Willis Thomas: Work in Society\u2019s Subconscious from 99U on Vimeo. Hank Willis Thomas has made it his mission to \u201cnot make sense out of things we think make sense,\u201d challenging our perceptions of identity, history, and symbols. In his 99U talk, Thomas shares what he\u2019s learned from creating his provocative body of work, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":120264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-other-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hank-willis-thomas-work-in-socie.jpg?fit=295%2C166&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":54900,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=54900","url_meta":{"origin":120263,"position":0},"title":"Hank Willis Thomas: Work in Society&#8217;s Subconscious","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"10\/11\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Hank Willis Thomas: Work in Society's Subconscious from 99U on Vimeo. 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