by Mark McConaghy In this essay, Mark McConaghy explains why British director Steve McQueen’s new film 12 Years as a Slave is such an important artistic work in our current visual and political culture. We live in an age in which we are, by and large, desensitized to much of the imagery around us. It’s […]

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