Published in conjunction with the exhibition Betye Saar: extending the frozen moment, held at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Oct. 15, 2005-Jan. 8, 2006; at the Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, Florida, Mar. 18-June 11, 2006; and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Sept. 8-Dec. 3, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-172) and index.

Acknowledgments / James Christen Steward -- Artist's statement / Betye Saar -- "Lest we forget": the liberating art of Betye Saar / James Christen Steward -- Looks and gazes: photographic fragmentation and the found object / Deborah Willis -- To/from Los Angeles with Betye Saar / Kellie Jones -- Reverencing the mortal: assemblage art as prophetic protest in post-World Warr II California / Richard Cándida Smith -- From frozen moment to spectator participation: assemblage and installation in the oeuvre of Betye Saar / Lowery Stokes Sims -- Plates and catalogue entries / Sean M. Ulmer, Katharine Derosier Weiss -- Mysticism -- Ancestry and ritual -- Racial imagery and stereotypes -- Nostalgia and memory -- Aunt Hattie -- Colored -- Notes to the catalogue entries -- Artist's chronology -- Selected bibliography -- Index -- Photo credits.