Portraits of Resistance: Activating Art During Slavery Van Horn Jennifer
A highly original history of American portraiture that places the experiences of enslaved people at its centerThis timely and eloquent book tells a new history of American art: how enslaved people…
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A highly original history of American portraiture that places the experiences of enslaved people at its centerThis 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
The Art Of Resistance