The art of remembering : essays on African American art and history /
"The Art of Remembering brings together a collection of essays by Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw written over the course of a twenty-year period (2002-2022). The book documents Shaw's own intellectual journey as an African American art historian and considers how desire, delusion, and what she call...
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| Language: | English |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2024
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| Series: | Visual arts of Africa and its diasporas
e-Duke books scholarly collection |
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Table of Contents:
- Facing Phillis Wheatley : portraiture and publishing in the era of the American Revolution
- Profiling Moses Williams : silhouettes and race in the early republic
- The freedom to marry for all : painting interracial families during the era of the Civil War
- Landscapes of labor : race, religion, and Rhode Island in the painting of Edward Mitchell Bannister
- "This gifted sculptress of the race" : the intersectional art of May Howard Jackson
- Singing saints : Sargent Johnson's modern Blackness
- Norman Lewis's Dan Mask : the challenge of the African "thing" in the 1930s
- "Bolshevized by conditions" : African American artists and Mexican muralism
- Malcolm X rising : Barbara Chase-Riboud's phenomenological art
- Richard Yarde's Mojo Blues
- Remembering the remnants : contemporary art and Hurricane Katrina
- The wandering gaze of Carrie Mae Weems's The Louisiana Project
- Ten years of 30 Americans
- No man is an island : the diasporic performances of Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz and Sheldon Scott
- What Deana Lawson wants