March 13-15
This exhibition, symposium, and the accompanying publication examine the aesthetic motives, historical context, political impact, and social uses of artworks that deal with the theme of the plantation. The guest curator for the exhibition in Charlottesville is Maurie D. McInnis, director of American Studies and associate professor, McIntire Department of Art at the University of Virginia.
March 13, 5 pm
Keynote address by Richard J. Powell,
John Spencer Bassatt Professor of Art and Art History, Duke University
Landscape/Escape: Subjugation and Agency in Nineteenth-Century Images of African Americans
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