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"In this book, artist and art historian Michael Harris investigates the role of visual representation in the construction of black identities, both real and imagined, in the United States. He focuses particularly on how African American artists have responded to - and even used - stereotypical images in their own works.".
"Colored Pictures traces black artists' responses to racist imagery across two centuries, from early works by Henry O. Tanner and Archibald J. Motley Jr., in which African Americans are depicted with dignity, to contemporary works by Kara Walker and Michael Ray Charles, in which derogatory images are recycled to controversial effect. The work of these and other artists - such as John Biggers, Jeff Donaldson, Betye Saar, Juan Logan, and Camille Billops - reflects a wide range of perspectives.
Examined together, they offer compelling insight into the profound psychological impact of visual stereotypes on the African American community."--BOOK JACKET.
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African American art, African Americans, African Americans in art, Race identity, Noirs américains, Identité ethnique, Visualisatie, Criticism and interpretation, Art noir américain, Rassendiscriminatie, Noirs américains dans l'art, Ethnische Identität, Kunst, Ethnische Identitat, Identite ethnique, Noirs americains dans l'art, Art noir americain, Noirs americains, African americans, race identityShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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Colored Pictures: Race and Visual Representation
February 27, 2006, The University of North Carolina Press
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in English
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0807856967 9780807856963
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Colored pictures: race and visual representation
2003, University of North Carolina Press
in English
0807827606 9780807827604
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"Akua McDaniel, an art historian at Spelman College in Atlanta, told me recently that her mother refused to wear red dresses or smile broadly in photographs."
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