Portraits of Resistance Adult & Continuing Education Ellen Moers

Ellen Moers

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Kate DiCamillo and Kate de Goldi

a new character and a chilling new extended scene

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Portraits of Resistance Adult & Continuing Education Ellen MoersA highly original history of American portraiture that places the experiences of enslaved people at its center This 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