Portraits of resistance : activating art during slavery

"This timely and eloquent book tells a new history of American art: how enslaved people mobilized portraiture for acts of defiance. Revisiting the origins of portrait painting in the United States, Jennifer Van Horn reveals how mythologies of whiteness and of nation building erased the aestheti...

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Main Author:	Van Horn, Jennifer (Author)
Format:	Book
Published:	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2022]
Subjects:	Slavery in art > History and criticism. Race in art > History and criticism. Art and society > United States > History and criticism. Portraits, American > History and criticism. African Americans in art > Pictorial works. Enslaved persons > United States > Portraits. Black people in art. Portrait painting, American. Portraits, American. Slavery in art. Enslaved persons. Enslavement in art > History and criticism. Race in art. Art and society. African Americans in art. United States. Portraits. Illustrated works. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Pictorial works.

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Call Number:	E441 .V235 2022
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