invisible and relegated to the margins Does the first part of the following text say: in white artists' paintings, the bodies of black people were represented as abject entities (black bodies were 1.absent and in margin or 2. displayed as a disgusting thing in the paintings)? Text: The black body was rendered abject, both invisible and relegated to the margins, and all too visible and considered disgusting by the white imaginary, therefore narcissism had a political value in the work of black artists in the 1990s.