The Art of Remembering

List of Illustrations  ix
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction  1
Part I. Past As Prelude  15
1. Facing Phillis Wheatley: Portraiture and Publishing in the Era of the American Revolution  19
2. Profiling Moses Williams: Silhouettes and Race in the Early Republic  42
3. The Freedom to Marry for All: Painting Interracial Families During the Era of the Civil War  62
4. Landscapes of Labor: Race, Religion, and Rhode Island in the Painting of Edward Mitchell Bannister  73
Part II. Modern Blackness  85
5. “This Gifted Sculptress of the Race”: The Intersectional Art of May Howard Jackson  91
6. Singing Saints: Sargent Johnson’s Modern Blackness  111
7. Norman Lewis’s Dan Mask: The Challenge of the African “Thing” in the 1930s  127
8. “Bolshevized by Conditions”: African American Artists and Mexican Muralism  135
9. Malcolm X Rising: Barbara Chase-Riboud’s Phenomenological Art  144
10. Richard Yarde’s Mojo Blues  161
Part III. Beginning Again  187
11. Remembering the Remnants: Contemporary Art and Hurricane Katrina  191
12. The Wandering Gaze of Carrie Mae Weems’s The Louisiana Project  203
13. Ten Years of 30 Americans  213
14. “No Man Is an Island”: The Diasporic Performances of Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz and Sheldon Scott  229
15. What Deana Lawson Wants  237
Notes  247
Bibliography  277
Index  289