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representing slavery: rereading the visual narrative

A Digital Exhibition for AAS 349, Seeing to Remember: Representing Slavery Across the Black Atlantic

  • Introduction
  • Staging Blackness as an Object
    • William Blake, A Surinam Planter in his Morning Dress, plate 10 from the book Narrative of a Five Year’s Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam in Guina…from the year 1772 to 1777
    • Bertall, Mixed Race: Cora, age 18, born of a Negro Father and Indian mother
    • William Blake, A Negro hung alive by the Ribs to a Gallows (1796)
    • Danny Lyon, Cotton pickers, 1967-69
    • John Singleton Copley (1738-1815), Elkanah Watson (1782)
  • Reconfiguring Historical Constructions
    • Elizabeth Catlett, In Harriet Tubman I Helped Hundreds to Freedom, 1946, linocut
    • Hank Willis Thomas, Scarred Chest, 2004
    • Carrie Mae Weems, American, born 1953 House/Field/Yard/Kitchen, from the series From Here I Saw What Happened And I Cried, 1995–96
    • Kara Walker, American, born 1969 Crest of Pine Mountain, Where General Polk Fell from Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) 2005
    • Robert S. Duncanson, Untitled (Landscape), late 1850s
    • Inge Hardison, “Frederick Douglass (1817-1895)” (1983)
    • Hank Willis Thomas, The Cotton Bowl, 2011
  • Reclaiming Black Bodies
    • Charles White, “Frederick Douglass” (1951)
    • Myra Greene( born 1975), Character Recognition(2007)
    • Ayana V. Jackson, Case #33 I (2013)
    • Carla Williams, Self-Portrait
  • Artist Videos

Artist Videos

http://commons.princeton.edu/seeingtoremember/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2017/05/03_06_2017_AAS349_Art_Museum__Wendel_White.mp4
http://commons.princeton.edu/seeingtoremember/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2017/05/Artist_Visit_by_Joscelyn_Gardner.mp4
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