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[https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/713572 by Jennifer Van Horn THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS JOURNALS] | [https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/713572 by Jennifer Van Horn THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS JOURNALS] | ||
This essay investigates a pair of early American andirons that depict identical African figures, each holding a decanter and wine glass. Manufactured by enslaved laborers at an unidentified iron foundry, the andirons depict Black bodies laboring in service. The andirons resemble contemporary representations of enslaved attendants serving White subjects in portraits, as well as woodblock-printed figures that decorated newspaper advertisements for slave auctions. Yet because of their materiality, they complicated the fantasies these visual artifacts proclaim. | This essay investigates a pair of early American andirons that depict identical African figures, each holding a decanter and wine glass. Manufactured by enslaved laborers at an unidentified iron foundry, the andirons depict Black bodies laboring in service. The andirons resemble contemporary representations of enslaved attendants serving White subjects in portraits, as well as woodblock-printed figures that decorated newspaper advertisements for slave auctions. Yet because of their materiality, they complicated the fantasies these visual artifacts proclaim. | ||
=====The New Early American Art Galleries at the Philadelphia Museum of Art: Investigating and Interpreting Art Objects' "Original Effects"===== | |||
[https://arth.sas.upenn.edu/graduate/object-based-learning-initiative/new-early-american-art-galleries-philadelphia-museum-art by PENN HISTORY OF ART] | |||
After a two-year hiatus due to the Covid 19 pandemic, the Mellon-funded Penn/PMA object study workshops resumed in fall 2021 with a session focused on the newly installed Early American Art galleries at the PMA. A morning meeting was devoted to background presentations via Zoom followed by afternoon in-person discussions in the galleries. | |||
