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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1. Verfasser: Van Horn, Jennifer (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Haven Yale University Press [2022]
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Zusammenfassung:"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 aesthetic production of enslaved Americans of African descent and obscured the portrait's importance as a site of resistance.... Portraits of Resistance is not only a significant intervention in the fields of American art and history but also an important contribution to the reexamination of racial constructs on which American culture was built"--Publisher's description
Beschreibung:Description based on print version record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on May 26, 2023)
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (x, 331 Seiten) 139 Illustrationen (color and black & white), facsimiles, Porträts
ISBN:0300275153
9780300275155
DOI:10.37862/aaeportal.00354

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