American Art Historiography, Slavery, and Its Aftermath
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13037526 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tanya Sheehan (Tanya Sheehan is the Ellerton M. and Edith K. Jetté Professor of Art at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, and executive editor of the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art Journal., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 2023 |
| Issue | 53 |
| Pages | 6-15 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2152-7792 • E-ISSN: 1075-7163 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/10757163-10904006 |
| OpenAlex | W4389129379 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
True to its cultural roots in the United States, the field of American art history has been slow to recognize centuries of slavery’s shaping of visual production and has only begun to address historiography’s persistent devaluation of Black lives. This article explores how scholars over the last decade are attempting to integrate discussions of slavery into studies of American art and reflects on the political implications of doing so. Their work invites us to look again at key moments in US history through the lens of art and slavery, holding out the possibility of reinventing the story of American art in relation to the African diaspora
Aesthetics · American history · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Devaluation · Diaspora · Field (mathematics · Historiography · Performance art · Political science · Politics · Relation (database · Sociology · Visual art of the United States · Visual arts · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Photography and Visual Culture
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |