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Overview"In The Art of Remembering art historian and curator Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw explores African American art and representation from the height of the British colonial period to the present. She engages in the process of rememory-the recovery of facts and narratives of African American creativity and self-representation that have been purposefully set aside, actively ignored, and disremembered. In analyses of the work of artists ranging from Scipio Moorhead, Moses Williams, and Aaron Douglas to Barbara Chase-Riboud, Kara Walker, Kehinde Wiley, and Deanna Lawson, Shaw demonstrates that African American art and history may be ""remembered"" and understood anew through a process of intensive close looking, cultural and historical contextualization, and biographic recuperation or consideration. Shaw shows how embracing rememory expands the possibilities of history by acknowledging the existence of multiple forms of knowledge and ways of understanding an event or interpreting an object. In so doing, Shaw thinks beyond canonical interpretations of art and material and visual culture to imagine ""what if,"" asking what else did we once know that has been lost." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Gwendolyn DuBois ShawPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.612kg ISBN: 9781478030171ISBN 10: 1478030178 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 02 April 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Part I. Past As Prelude 15 1. Facing Phillis Wheatley: Portraiture and Publishing in the Era of the American Revolution 19 2. Profiling Moses Williams: Silhouettes and Race in the Early Republic 42 3. The Freedom to Marry for All: Painting Interracial Families During the Era of the Civil War 62 4. Landscapes of Labor: Race, Religion, and Rhode Island in the Painting of Edward Mitchell Bannister 73 Part II. Modern Blackness 85 5. “This Gifted Sculptress of the Race”: The Intersectional Art of May Howard Jackson 91 6. Singing Saints: Sargent Johnson’s Modern Blackness 111 7. Norman Lewis’s Dan Mask: The Challenge of the African “Thing” in the 1930s 127 8. “Bolshevized by Conditions”: African American Artists and Mexican Muralism 135 9. Malcolm X Rising: Barbara Chase-Riboud’s Phenomenological Art 144 10. Richard Yarde’s Mojo Blues 161 Part III. Beginning Again 187 11. Remembering the Remnants: Contemporary Art and Hurricane Katrina 191 12. The Wandering Gaze of Carrie Mae Weems’s The Louisiana Project 203 13. Ten Years of 30 Americans 213 14. “No Man Is an Island”: The Diasporic Performances of Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz and Sheldon Scott 229 15. What Deana Lawson Wants 237 Notes 247 Bibliography 277 Index 289Reviews“The essays in The Art of Remembering show Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw to be a sophisticated thinker with a capacious interest in American art and culture and how it represents Black people. Her voice is both hard-hitting and subtle, unafraid to tackle meaningful and challenging topics.” -- Cherise Smith, Professor of African & African Diaspora Studies and Art History, University of Texas at Austin Author InformationGwendolyn DuBois Shaw is Class of 1940 Bicentennial Term Associate Professor of History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania, author of Seeing the Unspeakable: The Art of Kara Walker, also published by Duke University Press, and Portraits of a People: Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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