Editing Tarring and feathering (section)

===Art===
In the 1770s, when tarring and feathering was perceived as a novelty and became increasingly frequent in [[British America]], a number of prints showing this punishment were published in England.<ref name=Levy/><ref name=Trininc/>{{rp|25–28}} According to historian Barry Levy these pictures both catered to a sense of thrill, as well as anti-American sentiments. One [[mezzotint]] from 1775 also depicted women - "probably seductively and fearfully pornographic," being tarred and feathered before any such a case was actually recorded.<ref name=Levy/> Marina Trininc remarked that English prints emphasized the feathers, as e.g. geese symbolized "weak intellects and moral unnaturalness", while the "racialized dimensions of this punishment", the association of the tar with black skin, "were lost in translation across the shores".<ref name=Trininc/>{{rp|27–28}}

The [[Neo-expressionism|neo-expressionist]] painter [[Jean-Michel Basquiat]] exhibited the paintings ''Black Tar and Feathers'', and ''Untitled (Yellow Tar and Feathers)'' in 1982, the later a painting that scholar Fred Hoffman interprets as containing "young black heroic figures" and speaking of "a rising above the pain, suffering and degradation associated with the act of being 'tarred and feathered'".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2013/nov-2013-contemporary-evening-n09037/lot.10.html |title=Nov 2013 Contemporary Evening / Lot 10 |last=Hoffman |first=Fred |date=September 2013 |publisher=[[Sotheby's]] |access-date=August 11, 2022}}</ref> In the view of art historian Leonard Emmering, the "blackness of tar is [...] associated with Basquiat's skin color", and his ''Tar and Feathers'' painting "refers to the racist practice of tarring and feathering black men."<ref>{{cite book |last=Emmerling |first=Leonhard |date=2003 |title=Jean-Michel Basquiat: 1960-1988 |publisher=[[Taschen]] |pages=46–47 |isbn=3-8228-1637-X}}</ref>