...Shawn Michelle Smith This article considers Augustus Washington’s mid-nineteenth-century Liberian daguerreotypes as propositions about a new nation. It suggests that Washington understood the power of his images as propaganda for viewers in the United States and also as documents that registered...

... the site of dramatic violence; Lowe’s whale is ready to enter differ- is rendering words in a mixed genre that releases ent waters. them from a purely verbal format.37 He accompa- 7 “CASVA’s David Bindman,” Washington Post (April 11...

... the installation is conceived and orchestrated by Adkins with the Washington at Hartford, Connecticut in 1846-47, John Brown's collaboration of the on-site team assembled to assist him. The image has captured the imagination of black artists. The sculp• artist thus imbues his work...