Portraits of Resistance: Activating Art During Slavery by Van Horn, Jennifer

Portraits of Resistance: Activating Art During Slavery

A highly original history of American portraiture that places the experiences of enslaved people at its center...
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Author: Jennifer Van Horn
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Language: English
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Portraits of Resistance: Activating Art During Slavery by Van Horn, Jennifer

Portraits of Resistance: Activating Art During Slavery

$169.88

Portraits of Resistance: Activating Art During Slavery

$169.88
Author: Jennifer Van Horn
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A highly original history of American portraiture that places the experiences of enslaved people at its center

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.

Moving from the wharves of colonial Rhode Island to antebellum Louisiana plantations to South Carolina townhouses during the Civil War, the book illuminates how enslaved people's relationships with portraits also shaped the trajectory of African American art post-emancipation. Van Horn asserts that Black creativity, subjecthood, viewership, and iconoclasm constituted instances of everyday rebellion against systemic oppression.

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.

Author: Jennifer Van Horn
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 11/29/2022
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.13lbs
Size: 10.26h x 8.37w x 1.11d
ISBN: 9780300257632

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