On Thursday, February 18 2021, from 12pm to 1:30pm CST, the Working Group on Slavery and Visual Culture will be holding a virtual reading group session to discuss the role of African Americans as producers and viewers of art as well as in artistic resistance in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century United States.
Claudia Brittenham, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago, will lead the discussion.
We will be reading two essays by Jennifer Van Horn, Associate Professor of Art History and History at the University of Delaware:
- “‘The Dark Iconoclast’: Slaves’ Artistic Resistance in the Civil War South,” The Art Bulletin 99:4 (December 2017): 129-63.
- “Prince Demah and the Profession of Portrait Painting,” Beyond the Face: New Perspectives on Portraiture (National Portrait Gallery, 2018): 42-59.
Click here to download the essays.
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