Dread Scott | |
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 Dread Scott in 2010 | |
| Born | 1965 (age 58–59) |
| Notable work | What Is the Proper Way to Display a U.S. Flag |
| Awards | 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship, 2020 United States Artists Fellowship |
| Website | www |
Scott Tyler (born 1965), known professionally as Dread Scott, is an American artist whose works, often participatory in nature, focus on the experience of African Americans in the contemporary United States. His first major work, What Is the Proper Way to Display a U.S. Flag (1989),[1] was at the center of a controversy regarding whether his piece resulted in desecration of the American flag. Scott would later be one of the defendants in United States v. Eichman, a Supreme Court case in which it was eventually decided that federal laws banning flag desecration were unconstitutional.
- ^ Cohen, Alina (2018-07-25). "It's Legal to Burn the American Flag. This Artist Helped Make It A Form of Free Speech". Artsy. Retrieved 2020-02-14.