Portraits of Resistance

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Portraits of Resistance is written by Jennifer Van Horn and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0300275153 (ISBN 10) and 9780300275155 (ISBN 13).

"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 descent and obscured the portrait's importance as a site of resistance.... Portraits of Resistance is not only a significant intervention in the fields of American art and history but also an important contribution to the reexamination of racial constructs on which American culture was built"--Publisher's description.