Portraits of a People Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century

Name: Portraits of a People Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century
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ISBN: 9780295985718

ISBN-10: 0295985712

ISBN-13: 9780295985718

Edition: 2006

Authors: Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Emily K. Shubert, Karen Dalton, Delaware Art Museum Staff, Long Beach Museum of Art Staff

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This is a collection of color reproductions of over 100 important portraits made by and of African Americans in the 19th century, ranging from paintings, photographs, and silhouettes to book frontispieces and popular prints.

Book details

Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 8.00" wide x 10.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Lenders to the Exhibition


Director's Foreword


Introduction



Negro Portraits: Signifying Enslavement and Portraying People


"On deathless glories fix thine ardent view": Scipio Moorhead, Phillis Wheatley, and the Mythic Origins of Anglo-African Portraiture in New England


"Moses Williams, Cutter of Profiles": Silhouettes and African American Identity in the Early Republic


Portraits of a People



Establishing Identity


Rise of the Black Church


Abolition/Liberation


Family and Children


Prominence and Individuality


Index