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... sight and the capaciousness of Black existence beyond the binaries of light or dark, black or white. African American drama visuality Black male sexuality Blues for Mister Charlie In this chapter, Rachel Cohen examines four paintings by Beauford Delaney— Self-Portrait (1944), Untitled...

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..., and then in Clamart, as the two men lived together and worked out their ideas about reflection, abstraction, plurality, and self-regard. African American painting portraits self-portraits abstraction ...

... of symposium attendees (some presented in this essay) in what all felt to be an enacted “economy of generosity” prompted by Delaney’s own aesthetics of portraiture. African American painting portraiture drawing Black arts ...

... of revealing the eternal through the depiction of the temporal. This essay explores possible influences on Delaney’s work by Giacometti, as they circled one another in only occasionally intersecting social and artistic orbits. African American painting modernism portraiture Alberto Giacometti James...

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... in the brightness of the drawing; the focus on sun imagery; the continual representation of the act of seeing/not seeing; and repeated references to furnaces. The furnace is an image often utilized in African American literary culture, showing up in Richard Wright’s Native Son , Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man...

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... Chapter 4, “Flying Home?,” continues the exploration of spirituality and asks where “home” was for Palmaristas. Using the famous stories of “flying Africans” that appear regularly in African American folklore and novels by authors such as Toni Morrison and Alejo Carpentier, the chapter suggests...

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... examines the ways that African American families used portraiture to assert the value and importance of their marital unions and the children that they bore. marriage interracial painting portraiture Civil War From his arrival in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1869 until his death...

..., formerly enslaved people were granted the right to marry each other, deserves closer consideration. This essay examines the ways that African American families used portraiture to assert the value and importance of their marital unions and the children that they bore. marriage interracial painting...

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