Anna awarded an ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowship for new book project on early African Diasporic Art
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century African diasporic artists inhabited complex aesthetic and social worlds, and this new book will illuminate the complex historical conditions of being a Black diasporic artist during this period and bring attention to how such conditions informed the work these artists produced.
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Robert S Duncanson's Land of the Lotus Eaters (1861)
The literary paintings of African American artist Robert S Duncanson fascinate me. This work, Land of the Lotus Eaters (1861), and based on Sir Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem, marries the forms of history and landscape painting.
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