The art of remembering : essays on African American art and history / Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shaw, Gwendolyn DuBois, 1968- author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Visual arts of Africa and its diasporas

The visual arts of Africa and its diasporas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American art.

Art, American--Historiography.

African American artists.

Black people in art.

Race in art.

Slavery in art.

African diaspora in art.

Art and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 304 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"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 calls re-memory figures in the practices of critical race art history and visual cultural studies. Shaw sees her book as a project that seeks to address the unspeakable traumas of enslavement and to recover the narratives of Black creativity and self-representation that exist outside the American art-historical canon. Shaw's book is organized chronologically and divided into three parts. The first part focuses on the eighteenth and nineteenth century, the second on the twentieth century, and the third on contemporary work"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Shaw, Gwendolyn DuBois, 1968- Art of remembering.

ISBN:

9781478059165

1478059168

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