Feb 18th 2021

Register: https://uchicago.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYldO2orT8iGNHmjnjSMwdktF369xXkO0Nx

This virtual reading group session, co-sponsored by the Slavery and Visual Culture project at the Neubauer Collegium and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago, will consider the role of African Americans as producers and viewers of art as well as in artistic resistance in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century United States. Claudia Brittenham, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago, will lead the discussion. We will be reading two essays by Jennifer Van Horn, Associate Professor of Art History and History at the University of Delaware:

“‘The Dark Iconoclast’: Slaves’ Artistic Resistance in the Civil War South” (The Art Bulletin, December 2017)

“Prince Demah and the Profession of Portrait Painting,” from Beyond the Face: New Perspectives on Portraiture (National Portrait Gallery,

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