Name/Title
Unnamed figures : Black presence and absence in the early American northEntry/Object ID
N8217.B535.U6 2023Description
"As a corrective to histories that define slavery and anti-Black racism as a largely Southern issue, this exhibition offers a new window onto Black representation in a region that is often overlooked in narratives of early African American history."Context
Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum, New York, New York, November 15, 2023-March 24, 2024 and Historic Deerfield, May 1-August 4, 2024.Lexicon
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african americans in art--exhibitions, african american artists--exhibitions, art and race, black artists--united states, black people in art--exhibitionsLegacy Lexicon
Category
Exhibition catalogBook Details
Author
Emelie Gevalt, RL Watson, Sadé AyorindePublisher
American Folk Art MuseumDate Published
2023ISBN
9798218258085LCCN
1409804916Notes
Length: 295General Notes
Note Type
ContentsNote
Director's Foreword / Jason T. Busch -- Foreword: Imaginary Ancestors and Blacked-Up Imposters / Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw -- Introduction / Emelie Gevalt -- A Word on Capitalization / RL Watson -- I. Presence and Absence. Hidden in Plain Sight : The Persistent and Dangerous Myth of Race-Based Slavery as a Southern Institution / Christy Clark-Pujara ; Unseen in New England : Re-envisioning Black Presence through Early American Art and Material Culture / Emelie Gevalt ; The "Benighted" in Print : Delineations of Blackness and African American Responses in the Early American North / RL Watson ; The Potter Overmantel : Black Presence and the Sense of "Touch" / Lea C. Stephenson ; "I Like She Should Be Dress'd Plain" : Deference and Defiance in the Many Representations of Phillis Wheatley / Jonathan Michael Square -- II. Early Black Makers. The Black Printer's Devil : Peter Fleet and "The Prodigal Daughter" / RL Watson ; Joshua Johnson : Black Craftsmanship and Artistry in Early National Baltimore / Jill Vaum Rothschild ; Shadow and Act : Thomas W. Commeraw, a Descendant of Africa / Michael J. Bramwell ; The "Radical Imaginations and Everyday Anarchy" of Black Girl Needleworkers in Antebellum Connecticut / Kelli Racine Barnes -- III. Remembering, Misremembering, and Forgetting. Revisiting "Darkytown" : A Case Study in the Development of the American Racial Imaginary / Sadé Ayorinde ; Questions of Recovery in Photographic History / Anne Strachan Cross ; Unmasking Ethan Allen Greenwood's "Portrait of Charles Jones" / Gordon Wilkins ; Naming Black Presence : Issues of Titling and Re-titling in the Museum / Jennifer Van Horn and Virginia Anderson -- Editor's note on titles and image list.